Introduction to Computer Programming for Data Science

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This course introduces the most important data structures available in R and their practical application. Methodologies to import data from external sources (files, databases, on-line resources), to manipulate and transform data, and to save\export data to data repositories are described. The course also describes how to compute descriptive statistics and how to build chart for effective data visualization tasks. The students will become familiar in using some R data manipulation and visualization libraries.