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Data Analytics with R (2225.YR.002016.1)

General information

Type:

OPT

Curs:

1

Period:

S semester

ECTS Credits:

3 ECTS

Teaching Staff:

Group Teacher Department Language
Year 1 Ruben Coca Marin Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences ENG

Prerequisites

Laptop computer with Windows, MacOS or Linux installed.

Previous Knowledge

Basics of R programming

Workload distribution

R Test
Concept test
Deliverable exercises.
Final business case presentation.

COURSE CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM

R is one of the leading softwares for Data Science worldwide. It is widely used in big companies and institutions, such as McKinsey&Company, Pfizer and others.

Learning R is fundamental to understand better what is data science and to learn how to put analytics and artificial intelligence at work.

Course Learning Objectives

The objective of this course is to introduce relevant concepts of R and data analysis, focusing in particular on the interpretation and validity of the results that are obtained. At the end of the course, students should:

1) Understand the very basics of statistics applied to business and decision-making
2) Be familiar with R, and be able to make statistical analysis and basic modelling (hypothesis tests, regression models, etc.)

CONTENT

1. Basics of data analysis

Cleaning and manipulating data.
Data visualization to get insigths.

2. Basics of machine Learning

Solving regression and classification problems using the Tidymodels framework.
Clustering methods.

3. Business case

From business data, analyze it in order to obtain recommendations.

Methodology

The course format and methodological approach are based on a combination of explanations and practical parts. During the sessions participants will be provided with the material needed to follow this course. The material includes both the theoretical content of the different subjects to be discussed and the data needed to practice the concepts learned.

Participants will be with provided with real datasets for practices and will work in groups to solve different challenges by applying quantitative methods.

Assessment criteria

The assessment will depend 100% on class attendance.
Students will be evaluated individually (class participation, R knowledge and data analytics concepts) and in group (analysis of a business case and final presentation of the results)

Bibliography

David Spiegelhalter (2019) The Art of Statistics: How to Learn from Data.

de Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani (2013) An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R

R4DS: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/

Max Kuhn and Kjell Johnson, Feature Engineering and Selection: A Practical Approach for Predictive Models. Chapman and Hall/CRC http://www.feat.engineering/index.html

Max Kuhn and Julia Silge, Tidy Modeling with R https://www.tmwr.org/

Mastering Shiny: https://mastering-shiny.org/index.html



Timetable and sections

Group Teacher Department
Year 1 Ruben Coca Marin Operaciones, Innovación y Data Sciences

Timetable Year 1

From 2023/1/20 to 2023/3/17:
Each Friday from 14:15 to 15:45.
Each Friday from 16:00 to 17:30.