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Data Analysis with R

R is a language that has become one of the most popular tools for manipulating, visualizing and analyzing data. While there are many R courses, learning these skills can involve a steep learning curve, especially for people with no experience in programming or data analysis. This course aims to help with this initial difficulty by equipping learners with essential skills in using R, including data wrangling and plotting.

The topics of this introductory course include data importing and exporting, handling real-life data sets and creating publication-ready plots with R. The topics will be covered using hands-on teaching and exercises.

Where & when:

This is a two-day course from 9:00 to 16:00. The course will be offered on-site at the CSC Training Facilities (Keilaranta 14, Espoo, Finland) and online (Zoom). Lunch is not included, but coffee/tea will be served for on-site participants.

Learning outcomes:

After attending this course, participants will be able to

  • Navigate RStudio
  • Understand R syntax and how to write R code
  • Import and export data using R
  • Use tidyverse package for data wrangling
  • Use ggplot2 package for creating high-quality plots
  • Perform basic statistics (t-tests, linear regression) in R

Pre-requisites:

No pre-requisites. No previous experience in R, programming or working in a command line environment is required.

Target audience:

Researchers and students from any field interested in getting started with R for data analysis or brushing up R basics.

Lecturers:
Heli Juottonen and Aurélie Vancraeyenest (CSC)

This course is offered free of charge, but registration is required (deadline: 24.11.).

Please note that this course is intended for participants affiliated with a European higher education institution, research institute or private industry. Please register with your organization’s email address to prove your affiliation.

Contact heli.juottonen@csc.fi for course details or event-support@csc.fi for registration related questions. If you later find out that you cannot attend the course, please let us know by sending an email to event-support@csc.fi.