DataFest 2019

Workshops

Date Day of week Time Place Presenter Topic
2/5/2019 Tuesday 5pm-6pm Middlebush room 207 Alex Oard Introduction to R
  • Installing R
  • Basics of R, and using functions
  • Inputting and reading data
  • Logic, loops, conditional statements
2/19/2019 Tuesday 5pm-6pm Middlebush room 207 Toryn Schafer Working with Data
  • Dplyr and Tidyr packages
  • Merging multiple data sources
  • Cleaning data
  • Creating new variables
  • Long vs. wide data
3/5/2019 Tuesday 5pm-6pm Middlebush room 207 Paul Parker Visualization in R
  • Plotting with ggplot
  • Making maps
  • Animations
  • Interactive visualizations
3/19/2019 Tuesday 5pm-6pm Middlebush room 207 Josh North Statistical Modeling
  • Linear regression and logistic regression
  • Clustering
  • Tree based methods
  • Other techniques

If you can make it, please attend these workshops. They will be valuable in helping you prepare for Datafest, and they will give you the chance to start working with some big data! In addition, we will be offering R help sessions on the following dates:

  1. Tuesday, February 12 from 5-6 PM in Middlebush room 9
  2. Tuesday, February 26 from 5-6 PM in Middlebush room 9
  3. Tuesday, March 12 from 5-6 PM in Middlebush room 9
  4. Tuesday, April 2 from 5-6 PM in Middlebush room 9

These help sessions will give you a chance to ask any questions you may have, and work through any troubles you might experience while trying out the techniques from the workshops.