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Introduction

R is a powerful language for data science in many disciplines of research with a steep learning curve. The tidyverse group of packages provide a dialect that greatly simplifies:

  • data importing
  • cleaning
  • processing
  • visualization as well as providing reproducible workflows using pipelines (%>%)

Adopt Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio, philosophy: take each step of data science and replace many intricacies of R with clear, consistent and easy to learn syntax. RStudio will be the software to use since it eases package management, scripting, plotting and data handling.

The four day course provides a complete introduction to data science in R with the tidyverse. The course will not go deep into statistics but rather getting data ready, some exploratory analysis, visualization and handling models.

Preparing data takes up to 90% of the time spent in analysis — speeding this up is the mission of this course.

Tidyverse

The tidyverse is an official CRAN package and here is its manifesto. Hadley proposed the following workflow described in his must-read book R for data science

H. Wickham - R for data science, licence CC

In terms of R packages, the workflow is nicely depicted as in this picture, by David Robinson

Requirements

Prior knowledge

Participants should have basic experience in programming environments such as Matlab, Octave or other programming languages or complete a simple free online course as this one offered by DataCamp.

Material

Each student must bring their own laptop with R and Rstudio installed with recent versions. Please look at install tutorial to set it up prior to the course.

Schedule

Dates and time

From: 2nd May to 5th May 2017.

Each day, the workshop will be a mixture of lectures and practicals from:

  • 9h30 - 12h30
  • 13h30 - 18h

Coffee breaks will serve at each morning and afternoon sessions.

Program

  • Day 1 will review the basics of R and loading data via the readr package as well as Rmarkdown.
  • Day 2 will introduce tidying and organising data via the tidyr and dplyr packages as well as ggplot2 for visualisation.
  • Day 3 will look at functional programming tools using the purrr package, which greatly simplifies repeating operations. Many statistical packages have complicated and idiosyncratic data structures. The broom package helps to convert them to consistent data structures.
  • Participants are encouraged to bring their own data for analysis, convert existing code to tidyverse or perform a project on Day 4.

location

The course will be held at:

Maison du Savoir

University of Luxembourg

2 Avenue de l’Université

4365 Esch-sur-Alzette

Luxembourg

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In the room 4.510, Maison du Savoir, 4th floor.

room 4.510

room 4.510

Registration

the course is limited to 25 participants. Register through this form

ECTS

PhD students that enrolled through the doctoral school will receive 2 ECTS in category 1, which requires handing in a short report (deadline 19th May 2017).

Elixir

This event is supported by ELIXIR-Luxembourg