Data processing with R tidyverse

19-22 February, 2018 / 9:30 - 18:00

Description

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, and visualization as well as providing reproducible workflows, replacing many intricacies of R with clear and easy to learn syntax.

The four day course provides a complete introduction to data science in R with the tidyverse. 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.

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.

Agenda

Day 1 will review the basics of R and loading data via the readr package as well as Markdown.

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.

Students will receive 2 ECTS in category 1, which requires handing in a short report in Rmarkdown at the end of the course.

Schedule for the 4 days: 9:30 - 12:30 and 13:30 - 18:00

Registration

Registration

Course details

Organisers

Speakers: Aurélien GINOLHAC (LSRU), Eric KONCINA (LSRU), Roland KRAUSE (ELIXIR-LU/LCSB)

Address

The course will be held at Maison du Savoir on 4th floor, room 4.510.

University of Luxembourg, Maison du Savoir

11, porte des Sciences

Esch-sur-Alzette

See map: Google Maps

Contact

Roland Krause