Program Evaluation (Spring 2025 PMAP 8521) News

Week 2 FAQs

Hi everyone! You all had some really good questions this week! We talked about a lot of them in class last Thursday, but I’ll include some others here too.

Week 1 tips and FAQs

Making cleaner, nicer tables

Many of you have asked about how to make prettier tables with R and Quarto. There’s a whole world of packages for making beautiful tables with R! Four of the most common…

Making cleaner, nicer Quarto documents

Getting help more efficiently

As I mention throughout the syllabus and in the instructions for every assignment, I want you to succeed in this class! The best way to do that is to get help when you’re…

Zeroes and ✓−s in the gradebook

The 30-minute rule and how to ask for help

When working through the examples or problem sets, you will get stuck. It’s inevitable.

Building community

The most common question from the pre-class survey was some variation of this:

Copy, paste, and tweak

Learning programming is a little different from learning other skills or materials. In other classes you’ve taken, you read articles or textbooks, take notes on them, talk…

Plan for the first day of class

Announcements and updates

Haha one last thing for real!

Important R stuff

From reading the syllabus you’ll notice that we’re using R in this class (though you can certainly use Stata too if you really want). R is free (!!), and highly sought after…

Welcome to class!

Hello everyone!