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Develop Insights from Data With Tidy Tools. Import, wrangle, visualize, and model data with the Tidyverse R packages
Instructors: Stephanie Hicks, PhD
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Organize a data science project
Import data from common spreadsheet, database, and web-based formats
Wrangle and manipulate messy data and build tidy datasets
Build presentation quality data graphics
Build predictive machine learning models
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This Specialization is intended for data scientists with some familiarity with the R programming language who are seeking to do data science using the Tidyverse family of packages. Through 5 courses, you will cover importing, wrangling, visualizing, and modeling data using the powerful Tidyverse framework. The Tidyverse packages provide a simple but powerful approach to data science which scales from the most basic analyses to massive data deployments. This course covers the entire life cycle of a data science project and presents specific tidy tools for each stage.
Applied Learning Project
Learners will engage in a project at the end of each course. Through each project, learners will build an organize a data science project from scratch, import and manipulate data from a variety of data formats, wrangle non-tidy data into tidy data, visualize data with ggplot2, and build machine learning prediction models.
Distinguish between tidy and non-tidy data
Describe how non-tidy data can be transformed into tidy data
Describe the Tidyverse ecosystem of packages
Organize and initialize a data science project
Describe different data formats
Apply Tidyverse functions to import data into R from external formats
Obtain data from a web API
Apply Tidyverse functions to transform non-tidy data to tidy data
Conduct basic exploratory data analysis
Conduct analyses of text data
Distinguish between various types of plots and their uses
Use the ggplot2 R package to develop data visualizations
Build effective data summary tables
Build data animations for visual storytelling
Describe different types of data analytic questions
Conduct hypothesis tests of your data
Apply linear modeling techniques to answer multivariable questions
Apply machine learning workflows to detect complex patterns in your data
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This Specialization will take approximately 12-15 weeks.
Some familiarity with the R programming language is required.
The courses are cumulative, so it is recommended that students take the courses in order.
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