R Courses
2019-02-14
Structure of syllabus
Syllabus is divided into 4 courses.
- First course is a crash course to Data Science workflow. It consists 4 sub-sections, brief explaination of R data structures and syntax. Exploratory data analysis using base R and base graphics. Exploratory data analysis using
data.table
,lattice
andggplot2
. Lastly the single example of Machine Learning usingh2o
package. - Second course is more in-depth explanation of different scenarios in Data Science workflow. Programming in R, Data IO, remote computing, data transformation, more Machine Learning examples, focus on interpretability. Developing own R package and lastly developing data products.
- Third course covers advanced R language feature, advanced queries against the data. Automation of Machine Learning. Writing C code for your R package. Turning C code to run on multiple threads with OpenMP.
- Fourth course is less focused on R and more on infrastructure for running R based projects. It covers common unix productivity tools, productionizing your project, deployment, adminstration, maintanance. Setting up continuous integration for R projects.