Big Data Analytics
R Programming
Over the past few years, R has been steadily gaining popularity with business analysts, statisticians and data scientists as a tool of choice for conducting statistical analysis of data as well as supervised and unsupervised machine learning.
This intensive training course helps students learn the practical aspects of the R programming language. The course is supplemented by many hands-on labs which allow attendees to immediately apply their theoretical knowledge in practice.
AUDIENCE
Business Analysts, Technical Managers, and Programmers.
PREREQUISITES
Participants should have the general knowledge of statistics and programming.
Topics covered include:
- High octane introduction to R programming
- Learning about R data structures
- Working with R functions
- Statistical data analysis with R
- Supervised and unsupervised machine learning with R
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
- Installing R
- Character Terminal and GUI Interfaces to R
- Other GUI Integrated Development Environments
CHAPTER 2. WORKING WITH R
- Running R
- Learning GUI Integrated Development Environment
- Interacting with R Interpreter
- R Sessions and Workspaces
- Saving Your Workspace
- Loading Your Workspace
- Removing Objects in Workspace
- Getting Help
- Getting System Information
- Standard R Packages
- Loading Packages
- CRAN (The Comprehensive R Archive Network)
- Extending R
CHAPTER 3. R SYNTAX
- General Notes on R Commands and Statements
- Variables
- Assignment Operators
- Arithmetic Operators
- Logical Operators
CHAPTER 4. R DATA STRUCTURES
- R Objects
- Vectors
- Logical Vectors
- Character Vectors
- Creating and Working with Vectors
- Lists
- Creating and Working with Lists
- Matrices
- Creating and Working with Matrices
- Data Frames
- Creating and Working with Data Frames
- Interactive Creation of Data Frames
- Getting Info about a Data Frame
- Sorting Data in Data Frames
- Matrices vs Data Frames
CHAPTER 5. FUNCTIONS
- Using R Common Functions
- Numeric Functions
- Character / String Functions
- Date and Time Functions
- Other Useful Functions
- Applying Functions to Matrices and Data Frames
- Type Conversion
- Creating and Using User-Defined Functions
CHAPTER 6. CONTROL STATEMENTS
- Conditional Execution
- Repetitive Execution
CHAPTER 7. SCRIPTS
- Creating Scripts
- Loading and Executing Scripts
- Batch Execution Mode
CHAPTER 8. INPUT / OUTPUT
- Reading Data from Files
- Writing Data to Files
- Getting the List of Files in a Directory
- Diverting System Output to a File
CHAPTER 9. DATA IMPORT AND EXPORT
- Import and Export Operations in R
- Working with CSV Files
- Reading Data from Excel
- Exporting Data in SPSS Data Format
CHAPTER 10. R STATISTICAL COMPUTING FEATURES
- Basic Statistical Functions
- Writing Your Own skew and kurtosis Functions
- Generating Normally Distributed Random Numbers
- Generating Uniformly Distributed Random Numbers
- Using the summary() Function
- Math Functions Used in Data Analysis
- Correlations
- Testing Correlation Coefficient for Significance
- Regression Analysis
- Types of Regression
- Simple Linear Regression Model
- Least-Squares Method (LSM)
- LSM Assumptions
- Fitting Linear Regression Models in R
- Confidence Intervals for Model Parameters
- Multiple Regression Analysis
- Finding the Best-Fitting Regression Model
- Comparing Regression Models with anova and AIC
CHAPTER 11. DATA VISUALIZATION
- R Graphics
- Graphics Export Options
- Creating Bar Plots in R
- Using barplot() with Matrices
- Stacked vs Juxtaposed Layouts
- Customizing Plots
- Histograms
- Building Histograms with hist()
- Pie Charts
- Generic X-Y Plotting
- Dot Plots
CHAPTER 12. DATA SCIENCE ALGORITHMS AND ANALYTICAL METHODS
- Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning Algorithms
- k-Nearest Neighbors
- Monte Carlo Simulation
Is there a discount available for current students?
UMBC students and alumni, as well as students who have previously taken a public training course with UMBC Training Centers are eligible for a 10% discount, capped at $250. Please provide a copy of your UMBC student ID or an unofficial transcript or the name of the UMBC Training Centers course you have completed. Online courses are excluded from this offer.
What is the cancellation and refund policy?
Student will receive a refund of paid registration fees only if UMBC Training Centers receives a notice of cancellation at least 10 business days prior to the class start date for classes or the exam date for exams.