what would go in the “missing semester” of statistics education?

cs skills

• password managers

• IDEs: one graphical, one for terminal (i use VS code and nano)

• remote editing

• environmental variables

• tmux??

• git

• shell

• quarto

• latex

• deciding what research is worth pursuing

• how to analyze data

• how to find and read the literature

  • zotero
  • better bibtex
  • arxiv digest
  • following scholars on google scholar

• debugging

• build systems

communication styles

• markdown life, pandoc, etc

• how to be epistemically trustworthy

• typst

• beamer that looks good /

• writing executive summaries

• publishing something to the web quickly

• making a website

latex document templates

• cv / resume
• presentation
• research update / checkin
• project proposal (see richard mcelreath’s thingy)
• paper review
• cover letter
• pre-print