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Got a gripe, a kudo, or a glaring typo you can't let go of? These tutorials are the work of Matt Waite, Professor of Practice at the College of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. All praise, blame, and otherwise are his alone.
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Praise for the Tutorials
Anonymous comments from course evaluations in JOUR 307, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
Fall 2025
"The tutorials are SO SO SO helpful."
"Going from class example, to tutorial, to notebook assignment helped a lot just because of the repetition."
"I chose this one because the tutorials on R Studio that Matt Waite made were very helpful, along with the in-class examples that he would walk us through."
"The tutorials were also very beneficial and caused me to lock in on an assignment to accurately understand what I was doing."
"I felt like the course tutorials and time spent in class were all really helpful."
Spring 2025
"the r studio tutorials are epic, they are easy to follow and as someone who doesn't really code or do anything like that, i felt like a genius"
"The tutorial book that goes along with this course is amazing! The tutorials are easy to follow, and I have learned so much from them."
"The tutorials for this class were very helpful in my learning and I don't think I could've gotten through this course without them! I felt like they were helpful to walk us through the steps of coding and started very easy to ease us into coding."
"The tutorials were well put together and helped me understand it step by step."
"I felt like the lessons and tutorials that we had both in and outside of the classroom promoted our learning to code and use R."
Spring 2024
"The tutorials are perfect. I really feel like they are built to be a helping tool for students and are an effective way how to teach something. And a bonus is that I can come back to them any day and review how things are done."
"The step-by-step tutorials in tandem with our class lectures promoted independence and hands-on learning from the beginning of the class."
"His tutorials were also super funny, and I can't imagine how much work he put into creating those."
"The R studio tutorials were great because I was able to use them over and over between tutorials and the semester long project. It made coding easier to understand and do even though at times it would kick my ass, but I loved the challenge and once I got the hang of it my life got a lot easier."
"I really liked the tutorials for this semester. They did a great job of laying out how to do things and I frequently went back to them when doing the homework assignments."
"I appreciated the weekly tutorials through R studio… It helped with the repetition of R skills and reminded me how to problem solve through code."
"I felt the material was very accessible and easy to learn with the tutorials we were given."
"I really can't think of anything I would change in this class. I think the number of tutorials is great and I would go by that model next year."
"The tutorials helped me understand the course work."