Name: How can you help stakeholders ask and answer their own questions from data? The magic of reproducible reporting.
Start: 2018-05-31T13:30:00-0400
End: 2018-05-31T14:45:00-0400

As education leaders and researchers, we often focus on results. Countless conferences are about what we find, rather than interrogating what we seek and how we seek it. Practitioners are encouraged to share “best practices” rather than best questions. As a result, we rarely turn the table on ourselves, test our assumptions, and question what we’ve done. This year’s conference theme is "Question Everything," and we hope to provide a space for a focus on inquiry, as well as results, at our annual convening. We hope to elevate questions to the status of answers in our shared pursuit to transform education and improve student achievement.

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How can you help stakeholders ask and answer their own questions from data? The magic of reproducible reporting. Breakout Session

Limited Capacity seats available

Often the answers we provide to data questions are devoid of the context behind the question that was asked in the first place. Many times the response to our answer is simply another, more specific data question. In this session participants will learn how to leverage tools in R, including R Markdown and R Shiny, to move from providing answers to helping data users better ask their own questions.

Please note: You will need to install both R and RStudio before arriving to the session. You can install R by going to www.r-project.org and RStudio by going to www.rstudio.com. We also recommend you install some of the packages that we will be using in the session ahead of time. You can do so by running the following code in R: install.packages(c("shiny", "shinyWidgets", "tidyverse", "flexdashboard", "plotly", "ggthemes", "devtools")).

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