Facilitated by
Sébastien
Research scientist in experimental and computational biology. Passionate about education and learning communities. From Toulouse, Paris, Philadelphia, Boston.
Welcome!
This learning circle organized with BosLab will use the free R for Data Science book by Hadley Wickham and Garrett Grolemund and the community-contributed R for Data Science Exercise Solutions book by Jeffrey Arnold. We will cover chapters 1-5 and learn basic approaches to visualize and transform data.
Prior experience in programming or data science is not required. However, you should have R and RStudio installed on your computer before the first meeting. Instructions can be found here. If you have difficulties installing R and RStudio, please email me at sebastien.vigneau[AT]gmail.com.
The first hour of each meeting will consist of an interactive lecture with live coding and exercise breaks. The second hour will consist of facilitated small-group work on the exercises from the book. Experienced R programmers or data scientists are welcome to join any of these segments to help out more novice participants.
Course materials we'll use
"R for Data Science" teaches how to do data science with R. Chapters cover how to import, tidy, transform, visualize, model, and communicate data. The general philosophy is to teach the most useful skills first, using an abundance of examples and exercises. Solutions to the exercises can be found in a community-contributed book by Jeffrey Arnold: https://jrnold.github.io/r4ds-exercise-solutions/.
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Meetings
- March 3 at 7PM EST
- March 10 at 7PM EST
- March 17 at 7PM EDT
- March 24 at 7PM EDT
- March 31 at 7PM EDT
- April 7 at 7PM EDT
Location
online, UTC-5, Boston