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Scripting for data analysis

Martin Johnsson

Scripting for data analysis with R is a PhD course set to be given in 2017. This repository contains the developing exercises and homework assignments.

Course plan

1. A crash course in R

Before the seminar I'll send out instructions on how to setup R and RStudio so everyone can work along on their laptop.

Why do data analysis with a scripting language
The RStudio interface
Using R as a calculator
Working interactively and writing code
Getting help
Reading and looking at data
Installing useful packages
A first graph with ggplot2

Homework for next time: The Unicorn Dataset, exercises in reading data, descriptive statistics, linear models and a few statistical graphs.

2. Programming for data analysis

Programming languages one may encounter in science
Common concepts and code examples
Data structures in R
Vectors
Data frames
Functions
Control flow

Homework for next time: The Unicorn Expression Dataset, exercises in data wrangling and more interesting graphs.

3. Working with moderately large data

Exercise followup
More about functions
Lists
Objects
Functional and imperative programming
Doing things many times, loops and plyr
Simulating data
Working on a cluster

Final homework: Design analysis by simulation: pick a data analysis project that you care about; simulate data based on a model and reasonable effect size; implement the data analysis; and apply it to simulated data with and without effects to estimate power and other design characteristics. This ties together skills from all seminars.

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