LeaRn was developed collaboratively by staff and students in the Department of Biology at the University of York in response to the difficulties faced by newcomers to R.
The importance placed on data handling and analysis in a biology degree can come as surprise to new students, and not a welcome one!
At the start of the first lecture of a module called "Data Analysis in R", we ask students two things
This is what they tell us!
Emma Rand
Lecturer in Data Science in the Department of Biology
Joshua Sammy
Postgraduate research student in the Department of Biology
Connor Greenwood-Dean
Postgraduate student in the Department of Computer Science
Peter Ashton
Head, Genomics & Bioinformatics Laboratory, Bioscience Technology Facility