Introduction to data science with R

Workshop series
Computational and Data Systems Initiative

Do you want to get into the state-of-the-art way of doing data science in academia? Register for this workshop where you will learn the first steps of importing, manipulating and cleaning data sets in R using the tidyverse package.

At the end of this workshop, you will be able to
> import data sets of different file formats
> apply the most common dplyr and tidyr functions for data wrangling
> understand the principles of piping
> apply different methods to treat missing values

Pre-requisites? None

Date: Thursday January 27, 2022
Time: 1PM to 3PM
Location: In person - Burnside Hall BH511 *Vaccine passport required
Instructor: Tim Elrick, Faculty Lecturer, Department of Geography.

This workshop is offered for free by the Faculty of Science to the McGill community. Due to the limited amount of spots available, if you sign up for a workshop and don't show up, you will not be allowed to attend another workshop this semester.