• Data Manipulation and Visualisation
• University of Sheffield
• 3rd March 2020 09:30 - 17:00

• Facebook,
• google,
• Microsoft (who recently invested in a commerical provider of R)
• The New York Times.
• Buzzfeed use R for some of their serious articles and have made the code publically available
• The New Zealand Tourist Board have R running in the background of their website
• The BBC makes code available for some of their stories (e.g. gender bias in music festivals)
• Airbnb

• The Rstudio environment
• Importing data from a spreadsheet
• Filtering Data
• Plotting
• Calculating numerical summaries
• Reporting
• Joining data from multiple spreadsheets

• We will cover a very small set of packages - the tidyverse

Image Credit: Aberdeen Study Group

• Statistics (see March 5th)
• Specific applications
  • e.g. Bioinformatics

• Spreadsheets are a common entry point for many types of analysis and Excel is used widely but
  • can be unwieldy and difficult to deal with large amounts of data
• error prone (e.g. gene symbols turning into dates)
• tedious and time consuming to repeatedly process multiple files
• how can you, or someone else, repeat what you did several months or years down the line?

• Live coding
  • no more slides!
• Exercises
  • sticky notes to indicate progress
• Tea and Coffee breaks!
• You can view the course notes online if you miss anything

• We will use data from the gapminder project

• By the end of the course we will be creating plots like this in a few lines of code

• Tidyverse website
• RStudio cheatsheets
• R graph gallery
• Sheffield R meetup
• Stack Overflow
• R bloggers
• google!