Data Analysis and Visualization

Catalog description

This course is intended to give students hands-on experience on the basics of the data analysis techniques using R. It will focus on data management, data visualization, data exploration using descriptive data summaries, the basics of model building and the basics of inference. Topics include data management (creating data frames, splitting data, efficient data search); exploratory data analysis; data visualization; major distributions (univariate and multivariate); numerical summaries and outlier detections; and the basics of dimension reduction using principle component analysis and exploratory factor analysis.