@schochastics@jmcastagnetto@rstats@chainsawriot In my R book for journalists (Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism), I decided to start off with "here are some super cool things you can do with very little code!" to get people enthusiastic and engaged. In general, I like to start with well formatted data, making very clear to people that this is unlikely to be what they encounter in the real world. I like to ease into it, but I 💯 admit that other approaches are valid 2/2