The first blog post of my internship. What I set out to do, what I achieved, the challenges I encountered…
We decided that my internship project would involve selecting several open data research papers from the Psychological Science journal and trying to replicate the data using R.
In doing so, I hope to learn exactly how straightforward it is to replicate the data from these open science papers, and to become more comfortable using R, as I really think it’s a fantastic statistical program.
In Week 1, I set out to customise my blog site, select some open data science papers I found interesting, and plan what I hope to achieve each week as part of this internship.
Tasks that I completed this week include:
Customising my blog site, e.g., changing the theme, updating details on the home page, publishing a test blog post
Finding & saving the data from 5 research papers with open data - I’ve chosen one for each year from 2016-2020
Saving links to the research papers & open data on a page linked to my blog site*
*One of my tasks this week is to actually link said page to my blog. I can pull up the page by searching for it in the search bar on my blog, but there is no direct link from my site at the moment.
I did not put together a plan for each week, so that will be a task for this week! As well as starting to look at the 2016 paper and determining the steps required to replicate the data on R.