Instructor:

Hao Zhang, zhanghao@purdue.edu
HAAS 130
Office hours by appointment.

Eligibility

This class is offered to a group of selected students who need this course to graduate on time. Instructor permission is therefore needed to take this course.

Objective

This course will introduce R at the advanced level for processing, visulizing and analyzing data, and communicating statistical results. It covers topics about R that are usually not covered in great details in a regular statistical course.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Import data
  2. Tidy data
  3. Transform data
  4. Visulize data
  5. Analyze data
  6. Communicate results

Grading Policy

Grades are based on class attendance (10%), projects (60%) and presentations (30%). Grading scales are: A: 90% or above, B: 80-90%, C: 70-80%, D: 60-70%, F: <60%.

Textbooks Required

  1. R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics by Jared P. Lander (2013)
  2. R for Data Science by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham. Online version can be found here.

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