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Data Science: R Programming Online Course
Course Highlights Gain the skills and credentials to kickstart a successful career and learn from the experts with this step-by-step …
Course Highlights
Gain the skills and credentials to kickstart a successful career and learn from the experts with this step-by-step training course. This Data Science: R Programming Online Course has been specially designed to help learners gain a good command of Data Science: R Programming Online Course, providing them with a solid foundation of knowledge to become a qualified professional.
Through this Data Science: R Programming Online Course, you will gain both practical and theoretical understanding of Data Science: R Programming Online Course that will increase your employability in this field, help you stand out from the competition and boost your earning potential in no time.
Not only that, but this training includes up-to-date knowledge and techniques that will ensure you have the most in-demand skills to rise to the top of the industry. This qualification is fully accredited, broken down into several manageable modules, ideal for aspiring professionals.
Learning outcome
- Familiar yourself with the recent development and updates of the relevant industry
- Know how to use your theoretical knowledge to adapt in any working environment
- Get help from our expert tutors anytime you need
- Access to course contents that are designed and prepared by industry professionals
- Study at your convenient time and from wherever you want
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Why should I take this course?
- Affordable premium-quality E-learning content, you can learn at your own pace.
- You will receive a completion certificate upon completing the course.
- Internationally recognized Accredited Qualification will boost up your resume.
- You will learn the researched and proven approach adopted by successful people to transform their careers.
- You will be able to incorporate various techniques successfully and understand your customers better.
Requirements
- No formal qualifications required, anyone from any academic background can take this course.
- Access to a computer or digital device with internet connectivity.
Course Curriculum
Course Curriculum
| Unit 01: Data Science Overview | |||
| Introduction to Data Science | 00:01:00 | ||
| Data Science: Career of the Future | 00:04:00 | ||
| What is Data Science? | 00:02:00 | ||
| Data Science as a Process | 00:02:00 | ||
| Data Science Toolbox | 00:03:00 | ||
| Data Science Process Explained | 00:05:00 | ||
| Unit 02: R and RStudio | |||
| Engine and coding environment | 00:03:00 | ||
| Installing R and RStudio | 00:04:00 | ||
| RStudio: A quick tour | 00:04:00 | ||
| Unit 03: Introduction to Basics | |||
| Arithmetic with matrices | 00:07:00 | ||
| Variable assignment | 00:04:00 | ||
| Basic data types in R | 00:03:00 | ||
| Unit 04: Vectors | |||
| Creating a vector | 00:05:00 | ||
| Naming a vector | 00:04:00 | ||
| Arithmetic calculations on vectors | 00:07:00 | ||
| Vector selection | 00:06:00 | ||
| Selection by comparison | 00:04:00 | ||
| Unit 05: Matrices | |||
| What’s a Matrix? | 00:02:00 | ||
| Analyzing Matrices | 00:03:00 | ||
| Naming a Matrix | 00:05:00 | ||
| Adding columns and rows to a matrix | 00:06:00 | ||
| Selection of matrix elements | 00:03:00 | ||
| Arithmetic with matrices | 00:07:00 | ||
| Unit 06: Factors | |||
| What’s a Factor? | 00:02:00 | ||
| Categorical Variables and Factor Levels | 00:04:00 | ||
| Summarizing a Factor | 00:01:00 | ||
| Ordered Factors | 00:05:00 | ||
| Unit 07: Data Frames | |||
| What’s a Data Frame? | 00:03:00 | ||
| Creating Data Frames | 00:20:00 | ||
| Selection of Data Frame elements | 00:03:00 | ||
| Conditional selection | 00:03:00 | ||
| Sorting a Data Frame | 00:03:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 08: Lists | |||
| Why would you need lists? | 00:04:00 | ||
| Creating a List | 00:06:00 | ||
| Selecting elements from a list | 00:03:00 | ||
| Adding more data to the list | 00:02:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 09: Relational Operators | |||
| Equality | 00:03:00 | ||
| Greater and Less Than | 00:03:00 | ||
| Compare Vectors | 00:03:00 | ||
| Compare Matrices | 00:02:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 10: Logical Operators | |||
| AND, OR, NOT Operators | 00:04:00 | ||
| Logical operators with vectors and matrices | 00:04:00 | ||
| Reverse the result: (!) | 00:01:00 | ||
| Relational and Logical Operators together | 00:06:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 11: Conditional Statements | |||
| The IF statement | 00:04:00 | ||
| IF…ELSE | 00:03:00 | ||
| The ELSEIF statement | 00:05:00 | ||
| Full Exercise | 00:03:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 12: Loops | |||
| Write a While loop | 00:04:00 | ||
| Looping with more conditions | 00:04:00 | ||
| Break: stop the While Loop | 00:04:00 | ||
| What’s a For loop? | 00:02:00 | ||
| Loop over a vector | 00:02:00 | ||
| Loop over a list | 00:03:00 | ||
| Loop over a matrix | 00:04:00 | ||
| For loop with conditionals | 00:01:00 | ||
| Using Next and Break with For loop | 00:03:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 13: Functions | |||
| What is a Function? | 00:02:00 | ||
| Arguments matching | 00:03:00 | ||
| Required and Optional Arguments | 00:03:00 | ||
| Nested functions | 00:02:00 | ||
| Writing own functions | 00:03:00 | ||
| Functions with no arguments | 00:02:00 | ||
| Defining default arguments in functions | 00:04:00 | ||
| Function scoping | 00:02:00 | ||
| Control flow in functions | 00:03:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 14: R Packages | |||
| Installing R Packages | 00:01:00 | ||
| Loading R Packages | 00:04:00 | ||
| Different ways to load a package | 00:02:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 15: The Apply Family - lapply | |||
| What is lapply and when is used? | 00:04:00 | ||
| Use lapply with user-defined functions | 00:03:00 | ||
| lapply and anonymous functions | 00:01:00 | ||
| Use lapply with additional arguments | 00:04:00 | ||
| Additional Materials15 | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 16: The apply Family – sapply & vapply | |||
| What is sapply? | 00:02:00 | ||
| How to use sapply | 00:02:00 | ||
| sapply with your own function | 00:02:00 | ||
| sapply with a function returning a vector | 00:02:00 | ||
| When can’t sapply simplify? | 00:02:00 | ||
| What is vapply and why is it used? | 00:04:00 | ||
| Mathematical functions | 00:05:00 | ||
| Data Utilities | 00:08:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 17: Useful Functions | |||
| Mathematical functions | 00:05:00 | ||
| Data Utilities | 00:08:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 18: Regular Expressions | |||
| grepl & grep | 00:04:00 | ||
| More metacharacters | 00:04:00 | ||
| sub & gsub | 00:02:00 | ||
| More metacharacters | 00:04:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 19: Dates and Times | |||
| Today and Now | 00:02:00 | ||
| Create and format dates | 00:06:00 | ||
| Create and format times | 00:03:00 | ||
| Calculations with Dates | 00:03:00 | ||
| Calculations with Times | 00:07:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 20: Getting and Cleaning Data | |||
| Get and set current directory | 00:04:00 | ||
| Get data from the web | 00:04:00 | ||
| Loading flat files | 00:03:00 | ||
| Loading Excel files | 00:05:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
| Unit 21: Plotting Data in R | |||
| Base plotting system | 00:03:00 | ||
| Base plots: Histograms | 00:03:00 | ||
| Base plots: Scatterplots | 00:05:00 | ||
| Base plots: Regression Line | 00:03:00 | ||
| Base plots: Boxplot | 00:03:00 | ||
| Unit 22: Data Manipulation with dplyr | |||
| Introduction to dplyr package | 00:04:00 | ||
| Using the pipe operator (%>%) | 00:02:00 | ||
| Columns component: select() | 00:05:00 | ||
| Columns component: rename() and rename_with() | 00:02:00 | ||
| Columns component: mutate() | 00:02:00 | ||
| Columns component: relocate() | 00:02:00 | ||
| Rows component: filter() | 00:01:00 | ||
| Rows component: slice() | 00:04:00 | ||
| Rows component: arrange() | 00:01:00 | ||
| Rows component: rowwise() | 00:02:00 | ||
| Grouping of rows: summarise() | 00:03:00 | ||
| Grouping of rows: across() | 00:02:00 | ||
| COVID-19 Analysis Task | 00:08:00 | ||
| Additional Materials | 00:00:00 | ||
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