Week 1 Notes - Course Introduction

Published

September 8, 2025

Key Concepts Learned

  • Cloned the course portfolio template from github
  • Updated the index, about qmd files
  • created a sample lab exercise with some simple census analysis in .qmd

Coding Techniques

  • remembered to add progress = FALSE when gathering ACS data when geometry = TRUE otherwise we get the ugly progress bars when rendering the .qmd.

Questions & Challenges

  • The quarto website syntax is new
  • Always put a blank line after heading when creating bullet list otherwise it doesn’t list!

Reflection

  • This was very fun and satisfying