Meeting Notes 2018_09_08

Next Meeting: Saturday Sept 15 10:00-Noon

Action Items

• Windows users: Make sure that the new Docker configuration works well with Windows.
• Jim: Write a draft of steps to follow for group workflow for how team members work within GitHub tools (issues, branches, pull requests, project kanban, etc.).
  • John suggested a policy: Developer can merge their own pull requests for small changes, e.g. changing the book with minor edits. However, for larger changes and for most code changes, developer should work on a branch and make a pull request when finished.
• Jim: write how to handle passwords with a repository.
• Dipti: post a checklist so we have a framework of learning signposts that we can apply throughout

Discussion

• Role of ODBC
  • Ed has signed up for Windows, maybe one flavor of Linux
• Apply a consistent style to all the .rmd code
• Discarded docker-compose, because it adds unnecessary complexity. -- JDS
• Agenda: https://github.com/smithjd/sql-pet/projects/1
• Overall structure of the tutorial
  • Intro
  • Docker stuff
  • Docker and
  • 1b - Docker & R is step one in chapter
• Personas (archetypal consumers of the tutorial)
  • Chris, a Data Scientist at DVDs R Us: She is quite knowledgeable in R and knows a lot of dplyr techniques for exploring and analyzing data. She knows enough SQL to do SELECT statements to JOIN tables, in order to get data that she needs from the corporate database. However, the database design is outside her control, so she prefers to read the data into her R environment, where she can convert to a tidy format, do statistical analysis, and plot the data easily.

Original meeting notes

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1e3pqz0XhB1ZB1jWFxHLI3mPb66xOtj6opUBGV2qNON0/