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 new dataset in a group project.
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
- Data wrangling: creating new variables
- Data wrangling: summarizing data (within groups)
- The tidy workflow
- Data visualization: introduction to
ggplot - Data visualization: relationships between variables
- Statistics in R (only the section on linear regression is needed for the course)
In addition, the Data Center maintains a list of useful resources with additional tutorials and references.