Chapter 8 Reflection

During this semester, I was scared to learn R. The reason was because I have taken a workshop dedicated to R for a month during my undergraduate and it was difficult to understand and follow. It made me scared to continue trying to learn R and I would often think to myself that I was not capable of coding. Now, at the end of the semester, I can confidently say that I have learned so much in this course. I feel confident and will continue to practice on my own to get even better. My skills and confidence have changed drastically. I feel more confident and not scared to start coding something from scratch on my own.

During this semester, I learned how to create beautiful graphs and tables, and how to analyze data on R. It has made me feel cool being able to use R instead of SPSS because I can actually create something from scratch on my own. Not only did I learn about coding, the class made the statistical tests we used more concrete for me to understand as well.

The most challenging thing about this semester was the homework. I am a perfectionist and often took hours or even 2 days to complete a homework assignment (Sorry professor Martinez for asking for so many extensions…). But although that was the most challenging part for me, I was able to learn and make what I learned stick in my head! I am the most proud of being able to make Markdown files and have them published. I often find myself going back to them and staring at them and admiring how much ive grown in this semester.

I would love to continue learning how to code in R and I hope during the winter break, I can keep practicing and refine my project for open data week! Thank you so much for taking the time to read this book!