Full course description
Course Overview
The objective of the course is to develop skills and techniques in R from a data science perspective.
This self-paced course is composed of three R units and a final assessment. Each unit includes a series of instructor-led lesson videos, notebooks, readings, quizzes, and coding assignments. Upon successful completion of the three units, there is a final assessment that includes a Canvas quiz and a Gradescope coding assignment.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, you are expected to be able to do the following:
- Recognize the importance of data and programming for data science
- Confidently work in an appropriate programming environment
- Identify and use data types and data structures
- Read and Write to and from various data formats
- Confidently call and write functions and methods
- Confidently write a class and call its methods
- Use packages to augment existing data structures
Course Duration
This course is self-paced, and the approximate time to complete the three units and final assessment is 30 hours. You should plan to complete the course within 4 weeks, completing one unit and the final assessment each week. As a reminder, enrollment is limited to 90 days, beginning the date you first enroll.
Certificate of Completion
Upon successful completion of all quiz and coding assignments, a certificate of completion will be sent to your email and will also be available to download from your UVACanvas Connect student dashboard.