The data encounter in this course has three components. First, you’ll follow a series of general tutorials that present the R skills you’ll need for the course. Second, you’ll learn how to apply these skills to a specific case study related to the course content. Then, you apply the same skills to a homework assignment.
As preparation for the workshop, you have learned to:
The first workshop will cover the following topics (each topic links to a separate tutorial with additional details and a video explanation):
- Objects and functions
- Data wrangling: filtering rows and selecting
columns (
filter()only) - The tidy workflow
- Text analysis in R
- Data visualization: introduction to
ggplot - Data visualization: relationships between variables (bar charts only)
In addition, the Data Center maintains a list of useful resources with additional tutorials and references.