about.Rmd

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title: "About the Course"
#author: "Liming Wang"
#date: "4/4/2017"
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# Acknowledgements

This course is developed with support from National Institute of Transportation and Communities project #854.

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[![NITC](http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/sites/default/files/nitc_4c_horiz_tag.jpg)](http://nitc.trec.pdx.edu/)
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Parts of the course materials have been adpated from the following sources:

- [R for Data Science](https://github.com/hadley/r4ds) by Hadley Wickham
- [Software Carpentry workshop lessons](https://software-carpentry.org/lessons/)
- [UBC Stat 545](http://stat545.com) by Professor Jenny Bryan at UBC
- [NEU 5110 Introduction to Data Science](http://janvitek.org/events/NEU/5110/) by Professor Jan Vitek

I would also acknowledge the [Oregon Modeling User Group](https://www.oregonmodels.org/) in providing feedback to the course development and in helping promoting it.

The writing-up and website is powered by the [blogdown](https://bookdown.org/yihui/blogdown/) package and [github](https://www.github.com).

# License

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