Feedback form for R Beginner Workshop for Data Science

Dear Participant,

We thank you for attending the R Beginner workshop for Data Science from 28-30 January 2021. We would like to have your valuable feedback about the Workshop and learning experience as it will help us enhance the quality of our work. Kindly select the best option that describes your views. You can also provide your comments in the spaces provided in the form. Your response will be kept confidential.

Thank you for your time!

Total number of responses : 69



1. Your age


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2A. Your background

Count of  'Faculty in a College'   :    18
Count of  'Research Scholars/PhD Student'   :    5
Count of  'Student (B.E/B.Tech/B.Sc/Any other bachelor's degree)'   :    38
Count of  'Student (M.E/M.Tech/M.Sc/Any other Master's degree)'   :    4
Count of  'Working Professional'   :    1
Count of  'Other'   :    3




2B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:


I am actually part of an Integrated M Tech programme I am currently in my second year.


Teacher


Sy BSC BIOTECHNOLOGY student


student(Post Graduate Diploma in Statistical methods and analytics)


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Teacher in school





Questions related to the R background

3A. Do you use any statistical computation software (other than R) in your College/Institute/Organisation?

Count of  'Yes'   :    45
Count of  'No'   :    24




3B. If the answer to the above question is Yes, please let us know the name of the software (other than R) in your college/organization. (If NO, then please select the option 'Never used before'.)

Count of  'SPSS'   :    9
Count of  'SAS'   :    2
Count of  'MATLAB'   :    33
Count of  'Microsoft Excel'   :    21
Count of  'Minitab'   :    2
Count of  'STATA'   :    1
Count of  'tableau'   :    1
Count of  'Python'   :    16
Count of  'Never used before'   :    19
Count of  'Other'   :    1




3C. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:


I don't Know as It is not concerned to my background and I am new to this.


We use matlab for statistical computing.


Graph Pad Prism





4. For how long have you been using the above-mentioned statistical computation software? (If NO, then please select the option 'Never used before'.)

Count of  'Never used before'   :    28
Count of  'less than 1 year'   :    21
Count of  'less than 3 years'   :    9
Count of  'less than 5 years'   :    4
Count of  'more than 5 years'   :    7




5A. Do you already use R in your College/Institute/Organisation?

Count of  'Yes'   :    14
Count of  'No'   :    47
Count of  'Not sure'   :    8




5B. If the answer is "Yes" to the above question, in what way do you use? Please select all the relevant options.

Count of  'Course work - class or lab'   :    10
Count of  'Research'   :    7
Count of  'Consultancy'   :    2
Count of  'Other'   :    1




5C. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:


Introduced the unit on data visualization in biotechnology syllabus for UG students. thus teach Excel and after the workshop would also introduce R to students if they are interested


this is first experience learning R.





6. Why would you like to learn R?

Count of  'For course work - class or lab'   :    46
Count of  'For research'   :    34
Count of  'Consultancy'   :    6
Count of  'Other'   :    3




6B. If your answer to the above question is OTHER, then please specify:


To increase the knowledge ! and to have some idea about comp. science! it helped to gain an idea regarding what areas can be open after learning wrt career scopes. Thank you!


For teaching to biology students who do not have any mathematics or programming experience


I want to get into Data Analysis





7. Before today's workshop, have you attended any other R workshop? Please enter the total number of days of the workshop/training you have undergone before. If you have not gone through any such workshop/training before, please choose 0 days.

Count of  '0 days'   :    62
Count of  '1 day'   :    2
Count of  '2-4 days'   :    3
Count of  '5-7 days'   :    0
Count of  'Above 7 days'   :    2




Questions related to the workshop

8. Rate your experience in using Spoken Tutorial to learn R. (Kindly provide the response using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)





9. The tutorials were useful in learning the following concepts. (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "totally useless" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)





10. Were the spoken tutorials used during the workshop helpful in solving practice problems?

Count of  'Yes'   :    58
Count of  'No'   :    0
Count of  'Somewhat'   :    11




11A. Did the practice problem help you to improve your R programming skill?

Count of  'Yes'   :    60
Count of  'No'   :    1
Count of  'Not sure'   :    8




11B. Please explain your answer to the previous question


The practice questions reinforced the concepts learned in the spoken tutorial Personally as I am a slow learner the extra practice helped a lot.


When I will use it further then I will get to know in details, but the workshop is extremely helpful in learning


It was very helpful


It's a very good workshop !



Spoken tutorials were good


Yes, they were interesting enough to work upon and keep us engaging.


The average pace of tutorials also helped us to not only grasp but also remember the commands. Due to this, practice problems went quite smooth!


Practice problems helped to realize that programming in R is not at all difficult.


side-by side operations


It really helped me to improve this language which I really liked it


Question were challenging. So it really improved my R programming skills.


Yes, the problems were helpful. After learning a topic, practice problems were like revision as well as a challenge.


Yes, solving practical problems shows how well I understood the relevant topics


Yesit helped


The practice problems where very well set and hence it made me be more familiar with the R programming there by increasing my R programming skills.


I was a beginner at first ,but this practice problem improve my concept and help me a lot.


achievable yet challenging questions


Sure it is very helpful.


Because,for the first time,I am very excited for learning new programming skills in R using practice problems.It was very informative.


I have gained more confidence to use R.


The problems are very useful


GUIDE FOR MORE PROJECTS


it helps me to learn alot


As the spoken tutorial is very clear it helped me to solve other practical problems


The problems were not very complicated yet helped in understanding the language.





12. How will you rate the difficulty of the practice problems? Please choose 1 for difficult and 5 for easy

Count of  '1'   :    0
Count of  '2'   :    8
Count of  '3'   :    40
Count of  '4'   :    18
Count of  '5'   :    3




13. How would you rate your experience of live sessions? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "totally useless" and 5 implies "extremely useful".)





14. Rate the following aspects of the workshop:(Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Extremely bad ", 2 implies "Bad", 3 implies "Acceptable", 4 implies "Good", and 5 implies "Excellent".)





15. Comment regarding the pace of the workshop -

Count of  'Very slow'   :    1
Count of  'Slow'   :    0
Count of  'Acceptable'   :    54
Count of  'Fast'   :    12
Count of  'Very fast'   :    2




16. How useful it was to know the topics to be covered in the workshop in advance?

Count of  'Not at all useful'   :    0
Count of  'Somewhat useful'   :    6
Count of  'Useful'   :    30
Count of  'Very useful'   :    25
Count of  'Extremely useful'   :    8




17. Select the response that describes your overall view of the workshop: (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)





18. Select the response that describes your views/responses regarding the format of the workshop:(Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)





19. How would you rate your level of knowledge in using R before and after the workshop? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Beginner" and 5 implies "Expert".)





20. What aspect(s) about the workshop did you like the most?


The spoken tutorial were the most helpful.


The live sessions wer informative and helpful


Live Fossee team interaction and Live Sessions


Spoken Tutorials and Practice Problems


Self learning tutorials make learning R very easy and u can learn at your own pace.


ML


Spoken tutorials


Prerecorded videos was ammazing


The teachers were very interactive... I liked the Animation using R the most.


the effective sopken tutorials...good presentation...


That it's teachers were from IITS


Valuable input from the relevant experts and just the right amount of time given for practising.


The best part was the spoken tutorials. When we can relate and learn-we can remember and apply! Thank you.


I liked the live sessions they were really great


The teacher's were active, when we asked our doubt's .


hands on sessions helped a lot


The way kanan sir explains


The tutorials were most helpful in learning R and the live session were useful in learning more about R and the best part was whenever anyone had doubt it was resolved within minutes by the whole team


Basic statistics


The side by side learning part.


Live sessions and spoken tutorials


Textbook companion, spoken tutorial, self learning options.


Hands-on


Frankly and clearly explaining about various courses in R.


live sessions worked as true explained examples.


I would like the spoken-tutorial forum aspect. because it gives more tutorials to learn the basics of R in a very clear manner without any R experts.


Did not expect live tutorials for such low cost of workshop. They were amazing. Added greatly to the knowledge imparted by tutorials.


Talk on Modelling survival in prostate cancer using pathology images and R was very interesting. It gave us an idea about how R can be used by people of different professions and its applications are enormous.


Spoken tutorials and self learning. R markdown is new thing I am trying to learn.


The discussion session i like most


EXPOSURE


Hands-on


Spoken tutorial


Spoken tutorials were very useful


Spoken tutorial video


The Live Sessions





21. What aspect(s) about the workshop did you dislike the most?


The fact that they weren't exactly live session. For some reason I felt cheated most of the lessons were recorded.


Nothing


None


None


Nothing


NIL


Not thing.


The spoken learning thing is totally trash... the video quality is not upto mark and the teacher who is mostly teaching us R language, doesnot has the intention to teach... He is always kinda sleepy.



Not very much


That it was just 3 days, one more day could be added easily and lack of response from other participants.


live workshops were quite vague and not to the point! Mr. Digvijay's workshop was quite useful but others were no at par.


Nothing


real-time lab practice


About the spoken-tutorial question asking forms. You could improve the website to take video questions too.


Nothing i dislike


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Nothing


None


The intuition behind the R language was missing in some videos. the spoken tutorials are good but their flow and explanation must be more.


Nothing


at start i took one day to understand the way i needed to pace with the workshop.


Nothing to say


few exercises on machine learning should be added or a case study problem should be solved on the last day for 2 hrs.


Personally I couldn't pay attention to live sessions as there is no practice involved.


More time spending in the reading the tutorial


NIL


remote


As I am not familiar with coding, I felt difficult


Lot of topics were taught in a very short duration. After full day workshop sessions it was difficult to do home assignments and practise. Though I was present in most sessions. I could not practice them. It could have been a 5 day or 7 day workshop easily.


Recording was not provided and since classes were going on, I couldnt attent every minute of the workshop





Questions related to the Spoken Tutorial Forum

22. Did you register yourself on the Spoken Tutorial Forums as asked in the guideline email sent before the workshop?

Count of  'Yes'   :    62
Count of  'No'   :    7




23. Did you post questions on the Spoken Tutorial Forum during the workshop?

Count of  'Yes'   :    10
Count of  'No'   :    59




24. Did you answer anybody's questions on the Spoken Tutorial Forum during the workshop?

Count of  'Yes'   :    8
Count of  'No'   :    61




25. Were your doubts already answered in the Spoken Tutorial Forum?

Count of  'I did not refer to the Spoken Tutorial Forum'   :    8
Count of  'Yes my doubt was already posted on the Forum by somebody and it was also answered'   :    34
Count of  'My question was not posted on the Forum'   :    6
Count of  'I did not have any doubts'   :    24




26. Select the response that describes your views/responses regarding the Spoken Tutorial (ST) Forum:(Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)





27. What aspect(s) about the ST Forum did you like the most?


Availability to all and answerable so doubts were eared relatively quickly.


Maximum doubts wer cleared


Its Simplicity, clarity and Short time duration


All kinds of doubts can be asked and you get an answer within a very short period of time. Also your friends who know the concept can answer your questions.


It is a good platform for solving doubt and helped me lot by looking at others problem an learnig so that I don't make the same mistake


Nothing


There are good examples


The quality and simplicity of videos and how they can be done in such a less time.


it was quite clear and fun!


The way people behave nicely


My questions were answered very quickly and correctly.


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the way of teaching and specifying each and every command with a proper pace and not in hurry


timed query option! answers to some questions already there so answered few questions. remainder it is also easier to search from google! lot of resources available online


Hands on


solved problems and examples


It provides a clear explanation with codes. By that, I can understand R basics easily


Agree


Solutions to the learners problems quickly.


Answering the questions


KNOWLEDGE


Easy content


That complete guidance


Always available


It is updated and the queries are resolved efficiently





General

28. We have provided you R Spoken Tutorials and many other learning materials in this workshop. What else is required for you to conduct a similar workshop in your institution by yourself? (Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "Strongly Disagree", 2 implies "Disagree", 3 implies "Neither Disagree Nor Agree", 4 implies "Agree", and 5 implies "Strongly Agree".)





29. Check all the activities of the FOSSEE R team that you will be interested to participate in.

Count of  'R Lab migration'   :    22
Count of  'R Textbook Companion'   :    24
Count of  'R Case study project using existing open source data sets'   :    34
Count of  'R Case study project using published research papers'   :    31
Count of  'Contribution to R Spoken Tutorial series'   :    19
Count of  'None of the above'   :    14




30. Suggestions for improvement or any other suggestions.


Not really no.


Perfect


None


No suggestion


No suggestions


To, eradicate lack of response from participants, group activities could be useful, like GD, or pairing up of participants for certain tasks


no need as much! but live sessions must be given some aspects of betterment


You can improve your spoken-tutorial question asking website,so, that it becomes easier to ask questions and also send video recorded questions as well


Everything is good..


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Actually I am a beginner in R. We must be benefitted form the spoken tutorials.So I would to like to thank the FOSSEE team of IITBombey.


It was a very innovative and informative conference.


Actually I am a beginner in R Workshop. We must be benefitted from the spoken tutorials. So I want to thank you Fossee team of IIT Bombay .


only the intuition behind the use of code in R be explained little more. but anyways this is good for kick starting intuitive minds


It is good.


nicely conducted workshop.


You might short out the Workshop duration time to make the convenience of working faculties and provide yet more R-tutorial on the Spoken tutorial forum.


NIL


no


Even the statistics course content can also be added


Reduce the pace of such workshops for beginners


As mentioned, provide recorded videos and communicate more through email for those who might have missed the workshop.