Data Journalism: Investigating Data with R 1-3. Hands-on. [B+I]
Hands-on. Beginner-Intermediate.
Sooner or later you know you’ll come up against a dataset so big it’s going to crash Excel if you even try to open it. Maybe your questions are becoming too complex for Excel’s built-in analytics tools to handle. Maybe you find yourself frequently updating a dataset or running the same calculations for your reporting. Or you just want to automate some of the collection or visualisation of a dataset.
If these are the problems you face, then R is your friend! And here’s your chance to get to know it better.
By the end of these three sessions you will have learned the basics of using R and its most popular interface RStudio. You will know how to explore your data and run common analysis tasks.
To benefit from the training, we recommend you take the whole course.
You do not need to have any prior coding or data experience to take this course.
Technical Requirements
These sessions will make use of a cloud version of R and RStudio so there’s no need to bring anything other than a laptop capable of accessing the internet. At the end you will be able to access your R files and packages for a couple of months, allowing you time to decide to install R and RStudio on your own computer if you want to.
Jonathan Stoneman
Luuk Sengers
- 4 July 2024 12.30–16.50