Introducing DASH

In this section, we’ll give an overview of the DASH toolbox and review a few miscellaneous topics that will facilitate the tutorial. The section includes:

DASH Overview

We’ll begin with an overview of the DASH toolbox, and examine the types of tasks it can automate for DA analyses.

Object-Oriented Code

The DASH toolbox is written in an object-oriented programming (OOP) style, so we next explain a few OOP terms that will appear throughout the tutorial.

Help and Documentation

The DASH toolbox has comprehensive documentation for all of its components. We show how to access this documentation to further supplement the lessons in the tutorial.

Coding 1

In our first coding session, we’ll ensure that DASH is installed correctly and practice using dot-indexing.