Homage to R: Learn the Language of Data Science

Homage to R: Learn the Language of Data Science

This book will introduce you to the R programming language and the tidyverse way of manipulating data. It assumes no prior knowledge of programming or statistics. It has seven chapters, which cover basic data structures, - functions, - plots and data pivots, - multi-column operations and joins, - lists and linear models, - generalized linear models, and - spacial data. It reinforces concepts with detailed lab assignments, in which you will do real data science with real data. The labs cover: mishaps at nuclear power plants, - case scheduling at the labor appellate court of Rome, - Alibaba's package-delivery scores, - auto part defects reported to the NHTSA, - grocery-store inventory runs (the supply chain analog of bank runs), and - illegal fishing on the high seas. And in addition to these formal labs, you will also casually analyze data from Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), - City of Evanston Police Department, - Netflix, - lichess.org, - Wine Spectator - Citi Bike bicycle sharing program, and - Jane Austen.