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Introduction to the R tidyverse, Part 1/3

Event Type: 
Colloquium
Speaker: 
Erik Erhardt
Event Date: 
Friday, March 22, 2019 -
12:00pm to 2:00pm
Location: 
SMLC 352
Audience: 
Faculty/StaffStudentsAlumni/Friends

Event Description: 

Introduction to the R tidyverse: Explore, wrangle, program, and communicate, reproducibly.
 
Fridays 3/22, 3/29, and 4/5 from 12 - 2PM in SMLC 352.
Please bring your laptops with R and RStudio.
 
A three-day course introducing what the Tidyverse is, reasons for using it, the tools available in it, and an overview with exercises of its core functionality.
 
Description
This short course will introduce participants to the R Tidyverse, a set of unified packages covering the data analysis workflow implementing a single philosophy (making it easy to learn and use). Prior R programming experience is required. Through interactive lectures of R programming concepts, examples, and exercises, this course will guide participants through the 18 packages used for the steps of importing, wrangling, visualizing, and exploring data and then communicating the results. Participants will gain a high-level perspective of the data analysis cycle along with the tools needed for managing the details.
 
Participants will receive an electronic copy of all course materials, including lecture slides, practice datasets, software scripts, relevant supporting documentation, and recommended readings.
 

Event Contact

Contact Name: Erik Erhardt

Contact Phone: 5057504424

Contact Email: erike@stat.unm.edu