Introduction to Statistical Computing with the R Programming Language

This hands-on workshop mixes powerpoint-free discussion of open source R with guided coding examples for data analysis. Bring your laptop!

This face-to-face seminar outlines how to get started with the R programming language

This introductory session equips attendees with a broad & unintimidating overview of how to approach quantitative research tasks on a wide variety of topics including data science, geospatial analysis, graphical visualization, epidemiology & clinical trials, econometrics & actuarial science, database engineering, experiment design, natural language processing, medical imaging, and many more!

Learning Outcomes

• R programming introduction with hands-on coding and scripting - beginners are welcome!!
• Familiarity with the open source community that built this powerful computing technology, with comparisons to a range of alternatives like Python, C++, JavaScript, Stata, HTML, Microsoft Excel
• Understanding the CRAN package ecosystem like data.table, the tidyverse, superfast SQL duckdb