Imagine a friend of yours is taking this seminar. What would you recommend him/her?
I highly recommend the course to anyone since it will improve writing skills as well as coding.
This seminar requires a lot of patience and feels pretty long, but it's all worth it in the end. Prepare to dedicate a lot of time, especially at the beginning. The R-script assignments might seem hard and demand for great efforts, but it feels really good when you finally solve them. Following all the guidelines and announcements is crucial.
The language of numbers
Semester | # Participants | % Female | Ø Grade |
2019/2020 | 9 (BA) | 66 % | 2,0 |
2020 | 11 (BA) / 4 (MA) | 73 % | 2,1 |
2020/2021 |

Most students rated their background knowledge in Economics and Statistics as “okay” (mode). Academic writing experience was mixed. R Experience was limited. Still, considering the overall good final grades we may conclude that sound statistics background is more important than prior programming. In other words, students can learn R programming within the scope of a semester.