Dr. Lockerbie has been exploring new methods to teaching statistical methods. He is making use of the open-source statistical program “R.” Using this program means that his students will not have pay any money to perform statistical analyses. Once they have downloaded the program, they do not need internet access to do the assignments. Lockerbie has been able to use the screen share function of Webex, to provide individualized tutorials to his students. Last, by using this program, he is preparing them to be competitive for data science jobs in politics, as this program is mentioned in more job ads than any other statistical program, including SAS, SPSS, and Stata.