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Course 7: Introduction to R for Data Analysis
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Location:
Cologne / Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
Cologne / Unter Sachsenhausen 6-8
Course duration:
10:00-17:00 CEST
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Fees:
Students: 500 €
Academics: 750 €
Commercial: 1500 €
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Lecturer(s): Jan Schwalbach, Dennis Abel
Course description
The open-source software package R is free of charge and offers a variety of standard data analysis procedures as well as a comprehensive repertoire of highly specialized processes and procedures, even for complex applications. After introducing the basic concepts and functionalities of R, we will go through a prototypical data analysis workflow in the course: import, wrangling, exploration, (basic) analysis, reporting.
A detailed syllabus with course times and literature will soon be available for download here.
Target group
Participants will find the course useful if they want to use R to wrangle, explore, visualize, and analyse their data.
Learning objectives
By the end of the course participants should be:
Organizational structure of the course
The best way to learn R is to try things out and apply the presented concepts. Therefore, we will have a mixture of lectures and hands-on exercises. More specifically, each topic will be introduced in a lecture by the instructors. Participants will then receive a set of exercises on each topic that they work on alone. The solution of the exercises will be discussed before the start of the next lecture part.
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Software and hardware requirements
Course participants will need to bring a laptop with R (https://cran.r-project.org/) and RStudio installed (https://www.rstudio.com/). Both programs are free and open source. Participants will need to be able to download files from the internet (free Wifi is provided by GESIS) and have the rights to install packages on their laptops during the course.