Content:

The training consists of theory & exercises for introducing you to the essentials of R such as atomic types and data frames, but also touches more advanced topics such as environments and lazy evaluation. You will learn about the different uses of R and pick up tips for packages & follow-up courses.

• What is R?
• Strengths and weaknesses of R
• The uses of R
• IDE for R: RStudio
• Data types
• Functions
• Data manipulation
• Reading and writing data
• Control statements
• Packages & CRAN
• Documentation
• Advanced R: Environments, lazy evaluation, promises, speeding up R

Prerequisites:

• Prior knowledge of at least one programming language is advised but not required.
• Bring your own laptop (Windows, Linux or Mac) and install:
  • R: http://cran.r-project.org/
  • RStudio: http://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/

Trainer:

Alexander Van den Bulck is a data scientist with a strong background in programming, machine learning and data mining. He’s currently working as a consultant for Ordina (www.ordina.be), using R to help companies with data science problems like churn prediction, customer segmentation, stock optimization, etc.

Details:

• Start at 9:00 AM.
• Duration: 6h
  • August, 20, 2015
• Location: European Data Innovation Hub @ AXA, Vorstlaan 23, 1170 Brussel
• Price: 300€

Registration:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/training-introduction-to-r-tickets-17937225725