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Ciencia de Datos: Fundamentos de R

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1-2 hours a week

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En este curso, les presentaremos los fundamentos de la programación en R.

Creemos que se retiene mejor el conocimiento de R cuando se aplica a problemas específicos y por eso utilizaremos un set de datos del mundo real relacionado al crimen en Estados Unidos. Adquirirán las habilidades necesarias en R para abordar preguntas fundamentales sobre las disparidades en asesinatos entre los diferentes estados.

Primero, estudiaremos las funciones y los tipos de datos en R. Luego, explicaremos cómo trabajar con vectores y cuándo utilizar funciones avanzadas.. Además, aprenderemos a aplicar conceptos generales de programación, como los comandos condicionales "if-else" y los bucles-for. Terminaremos estudiando el wrangling, análisis y visualización de datos.

En este curso, nos enfocamos en construir una base sólida en vez de abordar todas las técnicas de R. La demanda de profesionales cualificados en ciencia de datos está creciendo rápidamente, y este curso ofrece conceptos que servirán de bases para aprender destrezas que los ayudarán a enfrentar los desafíos del análisis de datos del mundo real.

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Rafael Irizarry

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Rafael Irizarry

Professor of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Rafael Irizarry is a Professor of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a Professor of Biostatistics and Computational Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. For the past 15 years, Dr. Irizarry’s research has focused on the analysis of genomics data. During this time, he has also taught several classes, all related to applied statistics. Dr. Irizarry is one of the founders of the Bioconductor Project, an open source and open development software project for the analysis of genomic data. His publications related to these topics have been highly cited and his software implementations widely downloaded.

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