Lab X

Published

2023-04-24

General Instructions

This is a bonus lab. This lab is optional, although we very strongly recommend that you do it.

  • If you already have a professional website (for instance, if you built one in 431) you’ll choose option B below.
  • If you don’t already have a website, then you’ll choose option A.

Option A

If you do not already have a professional website describing your work life to the world, then build one, ideally using Quarto.

We want you to build a professional looking website that will be useful to you. The content is up to you, and what you’d like to share but it’s worth considering using this opportunity to craft your online presence. This is also an opportunity to learn how to use Quarto for the purpose.

Some of you may prefer to create a website with R Markdown, in which case the blogdown book can be of substantial help.

Follow whichever approach is best for you and you feel most comfortable with, or use the web to find some other options for how to best do this sort of thing using R and Quarto (I hope) or something else like Owlstown, Wix, Google Sites or WordPress (if necessary but we’d prefer you use Quarto.)

The key thing is to commit to making this a part of your life going forward, however you most effectively do that.

Sample websites built by both past and present students in this class are available to help you get an idea of what you can do.

Once you’ve built a site you’re proud of, post a Public Note to the Lab X folder in Campuswire celebrating your achievement and containing a link to your page for your fellow students to be inspired by.

Option B

If you already have a personal website that you built for 431 or for some other reason, then improve it by adding a blog post dated in 2023 that discusses in a meaningful way something important that you learned, either from reading How To Be A Modern Scientist by Jeff Leek, or from reading some part of the supplement entitled Statistical Inference in the 21st Century: A World Beyond p < 0.05 from 2019 in The American Statistician. A substantial discussion of something useful or meaningful to you is what we’re looking for.

Then post a Public Note to the Lab X folder in Campuswire celebrating your achievement and containing a link to your page for your fellow students to be inspired by, and a link to the specific blog post you’ve built now, and also adding a short description of anything else (besides adding the blog post) that you have improved about your site in 2023.

Deadline

This Lab is optional. To receive full credit, you must complete it (by making your post to Campuswire as described above) no later than Wednesday 2023-04-26 at noon.

  • You can complete Lab X at any time prior to that date.
  • Successful and timely completion of this Lab will add points to your overall Course average, depending on the effectiveness and effort involved (as determined by Dr. Love).
  • Anyone submitting by the following Wednesday 2023-05-03 at noon will get 2/3 of the credit.
  • We’d still be interested in seeing your site if you do this work later than the final deadline.

Why do this?

Timely completion of Lab X will improve your course grade at the end of the term to a meaningful degree, and will earn you some of Dr. Love’s respect. Also, no one under the age of 50 exists these days in a professional capacity without a website.

  • If you’re looking for Dr. Love to write a letter of recommendation for you in the fullness of time, he’s going to want to see your website.