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Episode Guide

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Season 0 (2021):

Episode 00 (E00):
- Group's goals: creating a forum for sharing questions, answers, and resources on R, as well as setting up a regular meeting.
- How to structure the sessions: we would try to adapt the format of Barbar Sarnecka's WriteOn writing workshop.
- Picking a platform: discord.com
- Choosing a name: RUGGED!
E01:
- Ice breaker
- Exercises + sharing/discussing solutions
- Reviewing how the meeting went and how to improve.
E02: Same structure as E01.
E03: Same structure as E01 and E02.

Episode 00 (E00):
- Discussion of our goals for that year.
- Decision start learning R from the ground up.
E01: Language Basics I
E02: Language Basics II
E03: Datasets (data.frames) I
E04: Datasets (data.frames) II - Data Importing and Cleaning
E05: Datasets III - Data Reformatting/Wrangling
E06: Linear Models I - The Model Comparison Approach (Judd et al.)
E07: Linear Models II - Practice Using lm() and afex::aov_car()
E08: Linear mixed/mutilevel models I - Approaches to Repeated Measures
E08: Linear mixed/mutilevel models II - More Complex Models
E10: Autonomous work, Organizing Projects and Files, Planning the Summer Break and When to Restart

Episode 00 (E00):
- Discussion of if and how the group could continue.
- Turns out RUGGED is alive and well!
- Brainstorming of ideas for Season 2.
E01 - October 31st - 10h30m - Mafalda Mascarenhas
E02 - November 14th - 10h30m - André Vaz
E03 - November 28th - 10h30m - Mariona Pascual Peñas
E04 - December 12th - 10h30m - João O. Santos + Housekeeping + R&D
Christmas break: From December 13th until January 8th
E06 - January 9th - 10h30m - Canceled
E07 - January 23rd - 10h30m - Onboarding members onto RUGGED projects (including a GitLab overview)
E08 - February 6th - 10h30m - Mariona Pascual Peñas
Carnival break: From February 7th until February 26th
E09 - February 27th - 10h30m - Introducing the QHELP project, and the QHELP 2023 mobility event.
E10 - March 13th - 10h30m - Introduction to R/Shiny Apps:
- ui and server components.
- Breaking down the code for moc's apps.
- Making the case for creating custom functions, and sticking to observeEvent(), to simplify the code in sever.
Easter break: From March 14th until April 9th
E11 - April 10th - 12h30m - Brainstorming RUGGED special events and ways to get more attendance on our episodes.
E12 - April 28th - 15h00m - The first ever RUGGED Open Day!
E13 - June 1st - Mariona Pascual Peñas + Season wrap-up party

Episode 00 (E00):
- State of the union: how we are, what we have been doing, and what we do we want do.
- Brainstorming for Season 3.
- This season we'll dedicate the first part of each episode to work on our projects. On the second part someone will present something they're working on, and/or ask for help with something.
E01 - October 20th - 16h00m - Marta Granadeiro:
- Linear mixed models
- data from a pilot study of stimuli
E02 - November 6th - 16h00m - Cristina Mendonça:
- Presentation of Lackner and collaborator (2023; of which Cristina is a co-author), with simulations in R.
E03 - November 17th - 16h00m - Laura Mealha: Masters thesis data and reflections on learning R
E04 - December 11th - 16h00m - Mariona Pascual Peñas
E05 - February 9th - 15h00m: Reconnecting and discussion on how informal RUGGED presentations can be, and how imposter syndrome is prevalent.
E06 - February 23rd - 16h00m:
- Mariona Pascual Peñas: Questions on how to compute chronback's alpha in R
- Cristina Mendonça: Generating not so random dot matrices
- Mariona Pascual Peñas: Research with smart pens
- Marta Granadeiro: Questions on factorial designs with repeated measures, and their analysis with linear mixed models
E07 - March 8th - 16h00m - Laura Mealha: Repeated measures ANOVAs

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