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+# Manuel's hopes for the course
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+Being fairly new to data science and taking Data Analysis (Methods-Data-Society) in my minor, I'm just generally curious to see how this will be useful in researching and displaying large data sets. I've got a bit of experience working with R and RStudio, but Git is completely new to me.