May 9 + 10: Microsoft R for Data Science
Event Information
Description
Welcome to R.
A 2-day instructor led, hands-on session that takes you from an introduction to R to building machine learning data assets and interactive dashboards. If you work with data at the moment and have wondered what R is about, this training is for you.
Pre-requisites
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Laptop with the ability to install R packages
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R installed from CRAN or MRAN
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A working knowledge of statistics and mathematics concepts
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RStudio
Day 1 – R fundamentals for analysis
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Starting R; R basics
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Loading data into R
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Installing libraries
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Profiles & projects
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Notebooks
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R resources
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Functions
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Looping
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Conditional logic
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Good practices in R
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Exploratory data analysis and visualisation
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Cleaning data; dates and times; coordinates; factors
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Creating plots with ggplot
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Interactive dashboards with Shiny
Day 2 – R for Machine Learning
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Machine learning libraries
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The mlr package
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Defining the target
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Partitioning the sample
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Developing features
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Training the model
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Evaluating the model
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Fine tuning the model
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Evaluating the model's outputs
Register to reserve your spot today, and take advantage of this brilliant introduction to R.