Updates

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This website was last updated on April 3rd, 2024.

Changes that have been made to version 6.0

All Units

Labs now also have text which direct students to complete tasks within the RStudio/Posit interface in blue font
GPS no longer reports precise location
There are anonymized datasets available for the Food Habits, Personality Colors, and Time Use (unformatted) Campaigns. They can be accessed by running the following code:
```
extra_data('food_ids')
extra_data('color_ids')
extra_data('timeuse_ids')
```

Unit 1

Food Habits and Time Use campaign questions, in the campaign guidelines, have been modified for clarity
Lesson 1: LMR_1.1 changed "Facebook" to "TikTok"
Lesson 14: updated LMR_1.16 with new data/color palette
Lesson 17: updated plots and cleaned up formatting on LMR_118
Lab 1B has more clarification on options/arguments
Labs 1C and 1F now have embedded videos to help guide students
Lab 1D has more explanation about filtering and the assignment operator

Unit 2

Stress/Chill campaign questions have been modified for clarity (and picture question has been removed)

Unit 3

Unit 4

Section 1 is now Campaigns and Community where we set the stage for the End of Unit Project (also updated)
Section 2 has been rehauled to improve the flow for the lessons on linear regression
Section 2 also caps off with non-linear models with Lesson 13: Improving your Model (previously Lesson 14)
Section 3 is now Piecing it Together with only the two lessons on multivariable regression
The lessons in Section 4 have been slightly rearranged - part of Lesson 17 was moved to Lesson 16 for better building of concepts.
Lesson 18: the LMR was modified for clarity. We also added instructions for the k-means clustering app.
The End of Unit Project is student choice around a community issue
Unit 4 Assessments have been updated (access through the Documents tool on Portal) - link to lungs data and solutions.