R training course

Introduction to R and RStudio

•    Basics of the R language
•    Advantages of RStudio
•    Discovering, installing and using R packages

Data wrangling and tidyverse basics

•    Introduction
•    Importing data from Excel, .csv, SPSS and SAS files
•    Long vs Wide Data
•    Data.frames, tibbles and tidy data
•    Factors, Dates and other data types

Exploratory Data Analysis

•    Introduction
•    Summary statistics
•    Cross-tabulation and hierarchical group summaries
•    Quickly visualise and explore datasets with ggplot2

Business Intelligence

•    Introduction
•    Design effective data visualisations
•    Create functions to automate repetitive tasks
•    Use RMarkdown to create PDF, HTML and MS Word reports

Web scraping

•    Introduction
•    HTML and CSS basics for web scraping
•    Extracting links with rvest
•    Automating scraping with functions and parallel programming

Maps and Geographic Data

•    Introduction
•    Creating geoscatterplots
•    Obtaining shapefiles to create choropleth
•    Designing effective choropleth with leaflet