Midwest Big Data Summer School - Introduction to R Workshop Outline

Midwest Big Data Summer School

Introduction to R

Pre-conference Workshop

Introduction to R

• Introduction to R
• Using R as a calculator
• Reading data into R
  • Reading directly from Excel
• Descriptive statistics
  • Subsetting the data
• Graphical statistics
• Getting help

Data Visualization I (ggplot2)

• Data types
• Data frames
  • Factors
  • Dates
• Reshaping data frames in R
• Aggregating data frames in R
• Basics of ggplot2
• Customizing (colors, characters, lines)
• Getting help on ggplot2

Data Visualization II (ggplot2)

• Workflow
• Workflow for constructing a graph
• Faceting
• Subsetting
• Making professional graphics
  • Exporting graphs

Intermediate R

• Exporting tables
• Maps
• Packages
• Functions
• R in batch
• Shiny apps
• Regression
  • Simple linear regression
  • Multiple regression
  • Smoothing
  • Poisson regression
  • Mixed effect models
  • Random forests