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  • Wednesday, July 21, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

    Introduction to Programming, R, and RStudio

    • Thinking like a programmer
    • The R language for statistical computing
    • Integrated Development Environment: Getting started with RStudio
    • The R package ecosystems: CRAN, Bioconductor, GitHub
    • Overview of the online PDSR book

    Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

    Location:  GEN-N114



    • Preparation ahead of first class:
      Please make sure to install latest versions of R and RStudio:
      • R latest version (4.1.0 or higher) (https://cran.r-project.org/)

      • RStudio IDE (RStudio Desktop Open Source) latest version (1.4 or higher) (https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/)

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    • 2021 Stream/Recording URL
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  • Wednesday, July 28, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

    R - Math & Logical operations; Data types & Structures

    • Basic math and logical operations
    • Data Types: Logical, integer, double, character
    • `:`, rnorm(), seq(), sample()
    • Data Structures: Vectors, factors, matrices, lists, data frames

    Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):  GEN-N114

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  • Wednesday, August 4, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

    Data query operations

    • Indexing data structures
    • Integer vs. logical indexing
    • Filter
    • Select
    • Group by


    Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

    Lecture (Access restricted to registered students): GEN-N114


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  • Wednesday, August 11, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

    Data Input/Output & transformations; Working with categorical data

    • Read and write data from/to CSV, RDS, RData, xlsx
    • Inspect & transform data types
    • Using factors for categorical data

      Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

      Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):  GEN-N114


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    • Wednesday, August 18, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

      Vectorization & Control Flow

      • Vectorized operations
      • if / then / else
      • for loops
      • while loops

      Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

      ! Please note updated location:
      Lecture (Access restricted to registered students)  MH-1400


    • Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

      Summarizing data

      • Column and row operations
      • Group and summarize with aggregate
      • 213 course review: bring questions on any topic covered so far

      Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

      ! Please note updated location:
      Lecture (Access restricted to registered students)  MH-1400


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    • Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 10:15 AM - 12:30 PM

      Visualization I

      • Boxplots
      • Histograms
      • Barplots
      • Scatter plots
      • Heatmaps


      Faculty: Stathis Gennatas

      Lecture (Access restricted to registered students):  GEN-N114


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