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 Duration 14 hours

Course Outline

Day One: Core Language Foundations

  • Orientation and Course Overview
  • Foundations of Data Science
    • Defining Data Science
    • The Data Science Workflow.
  • Overview of the R Language
  • Understanding Variables and Data Types
  • Control Flow (Loops and Conditional Statements)
  • R Data Structures: Scalars, Vectors, and Matrices
    • Creating Vectors in R
    • Matrix Operations
  • Handling Strings and Text Data
    • Character Data Types
    • Input and Output Operations
  • Working with Lists
  • Functionality
    • Introduction to Functions
    • Concept of Closures
    • Using lapply and sapply
  • DataFrames
  • Practical Labs for all covered topics

Day Two: Intermediate R Techniques

  • DataFrames and File Handling
  • Ingesting Data from External Files
  • Data Cleaning and Preparation
  • Utilizing Built-in Datasets
  • Data Visualization
    • The Graphics Package
    • Using plot(), barplot(), hist(), boxplot(), and scatter plots
    • Generating Heat Maps
    • The ggplot2 package (utilizing qplot() and ggplot())
  • Data Exploration using dplyr
  • Practical Labs for all covered topics

Requirements

  • A foundational knowledge of programming is recommended

Target Audience

  • Data analysts

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