Welcome



Data visualization and transformation

Data Science with R

Hello world!

Data science

  • Data science is an exciting discipline that allows you to turn raw data into understanding, insight, and knowledge.
  • You’re going to learn to do this the tidy way – more on that later!
  • This is a course on introduction to data science, with an emphasis on statistical thinking.

Course FAQ

Q: What data science background does this course assume?
A: None. But it does require a willingness to learn and a motivation to work with data.

Q: Will we be doing computing?
A: Yes.

Q: What computing language will we learn?
A: R.

Q: Why not language X?
A: A great discussion for the course forum!

Software

Excel, not…

R

RStudio

Data science life cycle

Data science life cycle

Import

Tidy -> transform

Visualize

Model

Understand

Communicate

Understand

# A tibble: 5 × 2
  date             season
  <chr>            <chr> 
1 23 January 2017  winter
2 4 March 2017     spring
3 14 June 2017     summer
4 1 September 2017 fall  
5 ...              ...

Understand + communicate

Program

Data visualization and transformation