Nice. I have worked with biologists quite a bit over the years. What sort of topics are you working on?
I am in the process of writing the first of these tutorials, it basically downloads a public Census dataset, munges it, and makes a variety of plots to answer very basic questions about the data. Once that’s in a viable form I’ll put a git repo up on github and mention it here, we can discuss how to build on that foundation in different directions.
I think the “learn by doing” with not too much excess explaining is powerful. I do like to explain, so I’m thinking of having a companion to each tutorial that’s a discussion of why things were done, and why other things weren’t done etc.