Introduction to data science in R and documenting in Quarto 

Disclaimer: The Math and R summer camps are geared towards incoming graduate students in all sciences, including social sciences and the humanities to give you a head start for your research and learning experience at McGill. We invite other members of the McGill community to apply as well; however, preference will be given to incoming graduate students from sponsoring units.

Before registering, please read carefully the information provided here.

Overview: This workshop introduces you to R, a common programming language to analyze data used across many disciplines in research and teaching at McGill as well as to Quarto (a typesetting language useful for producing documents combining code, text, images and equations). These very useful and powerful tools for (social) scientific research have a somewhat steep learning curve, even in the advent of AI-assisted tools. This workshop is intended to help you getting you up a good part of that learning curve.

• Day 1: Introduction to the basics of R and the graphical user interface RStudio 
• Day 2: Working with data (cleaning, pre-processing, dealing with missing values) 
• Day 3: Visualizing data and producing graphs 
• Day 4: Statistical prequel and more tips and tricks on working with R 
• Day 5: Typesetting using Quarto and RStudio Add-Ins 

Date: from Monday, August 18th to Friday, August 22nd, 2025 (5 days)
Time: from 9:30 am to 4:00 pm (each day)
Location: McGill Downtown Campus, Education Building, room 129, 3700 rue McTavish.
Instructor: Dr. Tim Elrick, Director of the Geographic Information Centre and Co-Director of DaSSH, Computational and Data Systems Initiative, with support from our learning assistants.

Bring your own mug! Coffee will be provided.