Introduction to Data Science

This is the source for the Introduction to Data Science textbook.

Setup and Build

1. Install Docker (instructions here: https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/)

2. Run RStudio inside the ubcdsci/intro-to-ds docker container:

   • in terminal, navigate to the root of this project repo
   • type the following in terminal:

   docker run --rm -it -p 8787:8787 -v $PWD:/home/rstudio/introduction-to-datascience -e PASSWORD=password ubcdsci/intro-to-ds
   

   • open a web browser and type http://localhost:8787/
   • for the username enter rstudio
   • for the password enter password (or whatever you may have changed it to in the docker run command above)

   Note, if you prefer not to use RStudio, but a plain text editor instead (i.e., vim) the see these docs below.

3. Finally, you can render the book by running the following R code in the R console:

   bookdown::render_book('index.Rmd', 'bookdown::gitbook')
   

Usage without RStudio

You can use this docker container to edit the files without RStudio using either vim or emacs. This can be done via:

docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/introduction-to-datascience ubcdsci/intro-to-ds /bin/bash

Updating the textbook data

Data sets are collected and curated by data/retrieve_data.ipynb. To run that notebook in the Docker container type the following in the terminal:

docker run --rm -it -p 8888:8888 -v $PWD:/home/rstudio/introduction-to-datascience ubcdsci/intro-to-ds jupyter notebook --ip=0.0.0.0 --allow-root

Style Guide

• For R code block labels, use the format ##-[name with only alphanumeric + hyphens] where the ## is the 2-digit chapter number, e.g. 03-test-name for a label test-name in chapter 3

Repository Organization / Important Files

• The files index.Rmd and ##-name.Rmd are R-markdown chapter contents to be parsed by Bookdown
• _bookdown.yml sets the output directory (docs/) and default chapter name
• img/ contains custom images to be used in the text; note this is not all of the images as some are generated by R code when compiling
• data/ stores datasets processed during compile
• docs/.nojekyll tells github's static site builder not to run Jekyll. This avoids Jekyll deleting the folder docs/_main_files (as it starts with an underscore)

License Information

Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)