Course Code: bspkrstud
Duration: 14 hours
Prerequisites:

There are no specific requirements needed to attend this course.

Course Outline:
  • Introduction to R and R Studio
  • Connecting to data using R and R Studio (also, exporting data from R to various output formats)
  • R variables (scalars, vectors, matrices and data.frames)
  • Sorting, ordering, sampling &sub-setting variables in R
  • R graphics (scatter plots, line charts, bar charts, box plots, histograms)
  • Descriptive statistics in R
  • Regression analysis in R (OLS and binary)
  • Control structures in R (loops & conditional execution)
  • Writing scripts and functions in R
  • Introduction to data mining using R (KMeans clustering;decision trees classification)

Hands-on data manipulation/visualization/analysis tasks/labs for all sections