The Turing Institute also supports a number of ‘Turing Reproducible Research Champions’, their work that they want to make reproducible and go on to share their experiences.
Q-Step
Chris Playford of the Q-Step Centre at the mexico rcs data University of Exeter presented some inspirational examples of how he and his colleagues at the Centre teach writing good code.
Aiming to get the message over early, Chris introduced his 1st year syllabus for his ‘Introduction to Social Data’ and 2nd/3rd year ‘Data Analysis in Social Science ‘modules. Students learned how to interweave code and outputs using R Markdown, and the Q-Step Centre used GitHub classroom innovatively to share and mark assignments.
Chris emphasised how critical it as to have really good teaching assistants to support this sometimes challenging learning activity.
Others
The Health Foundation also support the learning and application of R in the NHS, running workshops, tutorials and a platform for discussion and sharing of best practice solutions to NHS problems. And at the ONS, the Government Data Quality Hub have rolled out training to ONS staff on the Quality Assurance toolkits.