Practical Data Management with R for Social Scientists
Date:
05/11/2018 - 05/02/2019
Organised by:
SAGE Publishing
Presenter:
Matthew Denny
Level:
Entry (no or almost no prior knowledge)
Contact:
Lucy Golding lucy.golding@sagepub.co.uk
Venue: Online
Description:
Learn how to use R to manage data in a wide variety of formats, in a reproducible manner, at scale.
By the end of this course you will:
- Basic R commands and data structures for manipulating data
- The ability to read data from multiple formats in and out of R
- Proficiency using loops, conditional statements, and functions to automate common data management tasks
- Familiarity with R’s package system for extending its functionality
- The skills to clean and manage multiple complex datasets
- The ability to clean and manipulate textual data
- An understanding of basic web scraping techniques, for both standard web pages and the Twitter API
- An overview of the techniques and hardware necessary to manage large datasets efficiently
Cost:
234+VAT
Website and registration:
Region:
International
Keywords:
Data Quality and Data Management , R, programming
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