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A series of R tutorials based on Star Wars data
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# JedR Academy

 

> “Always pass on what you have learned.” – Yoda



## Overview



To be clear, this isn’t a package. It’s some training material. Here is a [list of released lessons](resources/links.qmd).



This project is a series of [learnr](https://rstudio.github.io/learnr/)

interactive tutorials designed to develop and improve R skills with a

heavy lean on the [tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org/). There are

two main goals:



- To focus tutorials on feats of skill or tasks to accomplish instead of

  on specific packages or functions.

- To use the same data whenever possible to avoid the cognitive load of

  learning new data for each example.



There are two types of lessons:



- **JedR Training**: Tutorials focused on feats of skills instead of on

  specific packages. For instance, “How to manage dates” vs “How to use

  lubridate.”

- **JedR Trials**: Short tests over specific skills. These trials are used by students in our J 327D Reporting with Data class.



JedR Padawans can [download the repo](https://github.com/utdata/jedr-academy) and run each notebook on their

local machines. The notebooks are stored in the `training/` and

`trials/` folders. All notebooks require `tidyverse`, `learnr` and

`gradethis`. Some notebooks might require additional packages.



Once you open a notebook, use the **Run Document** option.



![Run Document](images/run-document.png)



## Data sources



While we strive to use the

[starwars](https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/starwars.html) data as

much as possible, we’ve had to introduce other Star Wars related data in

some situations.



All data is in the `data/` folder except `starwars` which is utilized

from `tidyverse`.



- [starwars](https://dplyr.tidyverse.org/reference/starwars.html)

  characters data that is part of the tidyverse. It’s our main data set.

  Small enough to wrap your head around; complex and dirty enough to

  provide good examples.

- [starwarsrebels](data/starwarsrebels.csv) is a list of episodes of

  Star Wars Rebels from

  [tvmaze.com](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/117/star-wars-rebels/episodes)



### Other possible data sources



These might be explored later.



- [SWAPI](https://swapi.dev/)

- [Star Wars Databank](https://www.starwars.com/databank)

- We’ve pulled some data from

  [Kaggle](https://www.kaggle.com/jsphyg/star-wars), which notes “This

  data was gathered using the Star Wars API that is no longer available.

  The origin of the data is [The Star Wars

  Wiki](https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki).”

  - `characters`

  - `planets`

  - `species`

  - `starships`

  - `vehicles`

- Found some additional data on

  [data.world](https://data.world/datafam-con/may-2022-star-wars/workspace/data-dictionary)

  that yielded a couple new sets:

  - `survey` (done from Five Thirty Eight, apparently)

  - `principles`

  - `soundtracks`

  - `rt_ratings`

  - `imdb_ratings`



## Credits



This project was the brainchild of [Christian

McDonald](https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/christian-mcdonald),

associate professor of practice at the School of Journalism and Media at

the University of Texas at Austin. He began collaborating soon

thereafter with [Dr. Jo

Lukito](https://journalism.utexas.edu/faculty/jo-lukito), an assistant

professor also at UT JaM.



Other contributors include:



- [Christian

  Overgaard](https://journalism.utexas.edu/graduate/profiles/doctoral/christian-staal-bruun-overgaard),

  Doctoral student. He helped think through the project and wrote the "Managing dates" tutorial.

- Tamara Rodriguez designed our JedR hex logo.