This course introduces students to data management, visualisation and basic analysis using R statistical software. No background knowledge in programming is required. The target audience is public health workers and Masters/ PhD students.
Outcome: Taking part in this course would help the student to be able to:
- Install and configure R, R studio and packages on their PC
- Understand data structures and algorithms
- Understand conditional statements and write functions
- Perform data wrangling tasks, such as cleaning, merging, transformation, ...
- Perform data visualisation and the use of ggplot2 and other packages
- Basic debugging using R documentation, stack-overflow, etc
Learning method: Online-lecture and practical exercises
Out of scope: Model building, Machine learning, and AI