Dr. Josh Vandenbrink brings his interactive, skills-based, fun approach to a foundational data products course – using R Studio. In this course, students will discover several data visualization and graphing techniques, learn how to explore and analyze data using various methods, mine Twitter for sentiment analysis, and gain practice using interactive shiny apps. At the end of this course, each student will be much better prepared for a life awash in data.
This course satisfies the skills-based requirements to earn a BioHacker badge in Data Products.
Learning Paths and Skills:
Data Visualization
- Basic R Plots
- GGPlot
- Other Graphing Techniques
Exploratory Data Analysis
- Distribution Identification
- Outlier Detection
- Exploratory Statistics
Sentiment Analysis
- Text Mining
- Mining Twitter
Shiny
- Intro Shiny
- Interactive Shiny Apps
Final Project