A Guide for BIOL497 IS Students in FRI Public Health
Shane McCarty, PhD
R & Quarto instead of SPSS?SUNY SURC Team Poster
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Note: Each team member will contribute to the poster!
Team Presentation and Team Research Report
Note
Note: Each team member will have different responsibilities. One team member will focus on the presentation and two will complete the brief research report. I will help you step by step! Do not worry! You’ll learn a new skill and we will do it together.
Deliverables will be published in Quarto using Markdown.
An open-source scientific and technical publishing system for researchers to publish manuscripts and presentations to a website
This presentation is written using markdown language.
plain text format with simple syntax designed for people to write R and python code (similar to HTML, but simpler)
Question: Do you think this is cool too?!
R and Quarto instead of SPSS?SPSS is an antiquated, commerical statistics software while R is an open-source statistics software with thousands of “packages” containing code, data and documentation for scientists to adapt for their specific research purposes. R code can be published using Quarto for others to copy and run/modify. A Quarto manuscript and presentation includes normal text outputs (e.g., a normal text document, a normal PPT presentation) AND the underlying code for others to reproduce your results, tables, and figures.
We have the three smartest peer mentors ever:
The team poster should follow FRI guidelines, such as “better poster design”.
Important
Important: If the poster is solid, you can submit a proposal for SURC!
The team presentation should be a minimium of 10 slides: background, study objective, method, measures, figure 1, figure 2, figure 3, discussion, conclusion, references.
Important
Important: This will be delivered be a team member at our last lecture!
The team manuscript is a BRIEF research report of 4+ single-spaced pages. Follow the format of Public Health Reports for “preparing your manuscript for submission”.
Important
Important: If people scan a QR code on your team poster, it can direct them to a website with your report!
What sociodemographic variables (e.g., age, sex, race/ethnicity, social subjective status) are significantly associated with health status?
Cross-sectional study pooling five study samples collected in Fall 2024
SPSS Data Cleaning
Convert SPSS to R
/* Recode 5 response options from 1-5 */
RECODE Q40 (MISSING=-99) (ELSE=Copy) INTO SSS.
VARIABLE LABELS SSS 'Subjective Social Status'.
EXECUTE.SPSS syntax is converted to R Code:
# Recode Q40, treating -99 as NA and copying other values to SSS
data$SSS <- ifelse(data$Q40 == -99, NA, data$Q40)
# Label the new variable
attr(data$SSS, "label") <- "Subjective Social Status"Important
Important: You don’t need to know R… we will use Claude!
Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished presentation. To learn more about Quarto presentations see https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/.
When you click the Render button a document will be generated that includes:
Advanced literature review software:
I am looking to see if we can create a poster in Quarto instead of Powerpoint. For now, go with PPT. For now, we have the posterdown package as a potential option (see posterdown). A newer version is typst-templates.
TBD - embedded tweet github: https://github.com/sellorm/quarto-social-embeds/tree/main/examples