Lab report module 10

The purpose of this assignment is for you to demonstrate basic familiarity with importing, inspecting, cleaning, manipulating, visualising, and interpreting archaeological data.

We are investigating data from archaeological excavations at the Sobibor killing center in eastern Poland to understand the experience of Jewish people who were killed there. Please review Tuesday's (not Thursday) lecture Download Tuesday's (not Thursday) lecture slides to see the specific questions that your report needs to answer. 

Here's what you need to do:

1. Create a new RStudio project (New Project -> New Directory -> New Project), and
   • save it as archy-208-module-10-bmarwick (replace my UW ID with yours).
   • You should get a new, empty folder, ready to work in
2. Download the data.zip Download data.zip file that we have prepared for you from Schute (2018) Links to an external site. .
   
   • use your desktop folders to move this zip file into your RStudio project directory that you just created.
   • If you upload the zip file to RStudio in your web browser, it will auto-unzip, that is ok. It you're working on the desktop, we will write R code to unzip, do not do this manually or you might create a confusing situation
   • File names are vital here: do not rename the data files. We can't grade your assignment if the file names are not exactly as specified here (check for numbers magically appearing at the end of the filename, that means you've downloaded it multiple times, you should delete the other copies).
3. In your new project, create a new Quarto file (File -> New file -> Quarto Document -> click "Create"), and
   • save your qmd file as archy-208-module-10-bmarwick.qmd (replace my UW ID with yours),
   • delete all the template content
   • Ensure your YAML front matter has:
     • an effective title (how?), e.g. in the form of a question or statement
     • your name, hint: author: "Ben Marwick"
     • the date automatically inserted, hint: date: now
     • the output format set as html, hint: format: html: self-contained: true
     • warnings and messages suppressed in the output, hint: execute: warning: false
     • increase the image quality of the plots, hint: fig-dpi: 600
     • customize the date label, hint: title-block-published: "Last updated"
4. In your qmd file, use these headings, and write a total 8-12 fully-formed sentences  containing specific details and concrete nouns that answers these questions:

• • Introduction: What is the aim of your report? (1-2 sentence)
    • you need to mention the questions that we discuss in the Tuesday lecture Download Tuesday lecture
  • Data: What type of data are you analysing and where does it come from? (2-3 sentences)
    • use at least one example of inline R code to get a meaningful summary value for the data, e.g. how many sites are in our sample (do not hard-code any values, e.g. 'two')
    • your text must cite the publication that originally presented the data (what citation style to use?)
  • Exploratory data visualisation: What do you observe when you visualise the data? (3-4 sentences)
    • you need to write R code that visualises the spatial pattern in the archaeological data
    • you need to write R code that computes a hypothesis test using randomisation
    • you need to write R code that produces one interactive data visualisation showing the relationship between artefact density relative to distance from the foundations of the gas chamber
    • Each visualisation needs at least one complete sentence describing your observations of what you see in the plot, and how it relates to the questions you need to answer in this lab report.
  • Conclusion: What is your conclusion about archaeological evidence and the historical facts of the Holocaust? (3-4 sentences) 
    • you need a statement that directly and clearly answers the questions presented in the lecture Download ecture,
    • you need to include a cross-reference to at least one of your plots

5. Render your qmd file to output a HTML document.

• • Check that in your qmd file your data file names are exactly the same as ours.

6. Upload to Canvas your two files (please do not zip them):

• • your qmd file, correctly named, with correct YAML, with code and text, and
  • your HTML file, containing the output of your code and text, with no warnings or messages from the code visible