Understanding Humans Through Data

Teaching team: Rob Davies (coordinator) and Samuel Finnerty

Welcome

Welcome to this module PSYC7142! Very glad to have you here with us.

Rob Davies and Samuel Finnerty are the lecturers on this module.

We are looking forward to meeting you!

This module is designed for students who have never done data analysis or statistics before, as well as those who have background in this.

We have set up the module so that there are different exercises depending on your background.

  • For those who are new to data analysis and statistics, there is a week-by-week step-by-step guide to all you need to know to become a master’s-level expert in interpreting and analysing psychological data.

  • For those of you who have already used our software (R-studio) for analysis before, after revising the foundations of what you need to know you can move on quickly to the extra exploratory exercises where you can hone and broaden your skills.

Steps to get ready

Here are the steps to go through before the module begins, to help you prepare for the course:

First: Watch this first welcome video (part 1) from Dr. Samuel Finnerty who will introduce himself and discuss what you can expect in this module. Sam will be teaching Weeks 1 through 5. You will notice that many of the subsequent recorded lectures for weeks 1 - 5 include Prof. Padraic Monaghan who created the materials for weeks 1 - 5. Sam is teaching in place of Padraic Monaghan this year, as Padraic is on sabbatical.

Note: You may see that some of the videos say PSYC411 rather than PSYC7142. These are the same content but the name changed to PSYC7142 this year.

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Second: Watch this second video which is a chat between Rob Davies and Padraic Monaghan giving you a bit of an insight into what we’d like you to take from this module and what our philosophy is for teaching.

Third: Then watch our welcome video (part 2) on how to access the software for this module. Basically, what you need to do is in a web browser go to: https://ps-rstudio.lancaster.ac.uk/ and login with your university account name, and your university account password:

Note that you can only access this website from on campus, or via the University’s VPN. For information on connecting to the VPN, see here: ISS help for VPN

Next steps

Next step is to go to the Week 1 materials, once they are released. We aim to release materials for the following week by Thursday of the previous week. You can navigate to the relevant week via the list on the left of the webpage.

If you have any questions please use the Q&A forum on moodle here: Q&A Forum

Course Contacts

Email Addresses
Rob Davies (coordinator)
Samuel Finnerty (senior teaching associate)
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