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  • COURSE INTRODUCTION

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    • Time: 13 hours
    • Free Certificate
    Data analysis is essential for discovering trends and correlations and making informed decisions. The R programming language and software environment offer a free and ever-growing data analysis and visualization resource collection. Nowadays, R is used in governmental organizations, academia, and industry (that is, everywhere) for everything from sales forecasting and evaluating the impact of a marketing campaign to studying new health treatments.

    The course provides hands-on experience for learning R language basics and engages students in programming in this open-source language for statistical computing. This course is for all new R users and does not require prior programming experience. You will learn the foundations – how to install R and load data into it – and continue with data manipulation, visualization, and implementation of standard statistical functions. By the end of the course, you will be able to find relevant R resources (packages), read R code, and write your code to visualize and analyze your data.