Chapel Hill Conference on Depression, Bipolar Disorder, and Suicidality/2019/Day 1

This page is under development. More notes and resources will be added soon.

Day 1 is our pre-conference professional development day! We begin with a holistic set of training experiences dealing with all aspects of academic work. The experiences include a mix of talks and interactive workshops throughout the day. The schedule for the day as well as any applicable notes and resources can be found below.

= Welcome and Introduction (9:00 AM) = Mitchell J. Prinstein, Ph.D. & Eric A. Youngstrom, Ph.D.

= Get Hired! (9:00 AM) = Discussion of Job Options, Applications, Job Talks, Negotiation, etc.

Tools for Learning and Using R
MIT edX R programming courses

Codecademy Learn R

MIT has a bunch of free resources on how to learn R, Python

Squirrel is a package inside R that will walk you through step by step how to use R

Code Academy has a resource for learning R as well

The package “psych” runs every test (except chi-squared) that is useful in psychology. This includes computing interaction terms, moderation, path analyses.

Data camp has many “how-tos” for all sorts of code.

https://www.r-bloggers.com/the-5-most-effective-ways-to-learn-r/ The r-bloggers website is generally a good tool for learning things r-related. I’d say the recommendations on this page are pretty sound, so take a look and see what might work for you (more specific recommendations below). http://www.cookbook-r.com/ A great, non-interactive resource. Whenever I have a problem, I usually google “R cookbook [my problem]”. There are good cookbook tutorials on using ggplot2, a very versatile R module for making pretty plots of all shapes and sizes. https://swirlstats.com/students.html

https://rstudio.github.io/learnr/ As suggested by the r-bloggers link above, you may consider taking an online course. This would be good if you like plenty of structure and pre-made exercises. Good sites for this are Coursera, Udemy and Lynda.

In terms of textbooks, you can’t go wrong with the ones with the line drawings of animals on them (the O’Reilly series in general are a great – albeit lengthy – resource for programming in many languages).

Check out the package “tidyverse”; it’s a collection of R packages that adhere to a particular methodology for handling data. It makes processing complex data frames really easy and I wish I had known about it earlier. Plus they have a lot of resources for learning R (including a recommendation for the book I linked to above which you can get for free on their site!).

Useful functions on Wikipedia and Wikiversity
Talk page= allows people to leave comments on the page View History= shows track changes (essentially) since the page began Under view history, close to the top of the page, you can view page statistics so you can track views over time WikiEdu Training Modules

Committed vs. Died by Suicide debate on Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Categorization#RFC:_Categories_with_committed_suicide_in_title

= End of Preconference, Brief Closing Remarks (4:30 PM) = Mitchell J. Prinstein, Ph.D. & Eric A. Youngstrom, Ph.D.