| Course ID: | BUSN 3040E. 1.5 hours. |
| Course Title: | R Programming Skills for Business Analytics I |
Course
Description: | Introduces students to data analytics with the R programming language. Covers programming fundamentals and focuses on storing and manipulating data. Concludes with a data exercise to put knowledge and skills across topics into practice. |
| Oasis Title: | R Prog Bus Analytics I |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
| Grading System: | S/U (Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory) |
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| Course Objectives: | Learning Outcomes
• Basics of data analytics
• The markdown language for technical documentation
• The R ecosystem for data analytics
• R language fundamentals
• Data representation and data manipulation in R |
| Topical Outline: | R Workflow
• Programming basics
• Scripts and running code
• Projects, paths, and directories
Data Exploration
• Exploratory data visualization (ggplot2)
• Transforming data (dplyr)
• Variable types, missing values
• Variation, covariation, basic model building
Data Wrangling
• Data structures (tibble)
• Data import (readr)
• Tidy data (tidyr)
Data Communication
• R markdown
• Graphics for communication |