/Applied-Data-Science

Course material for Applied Data Science (ADS) 2019, University of Würzburg

Primary LanguageR

Applied Data Science

This repository refers to the Applied Data Science module at the University of Würzburg. In this course the handling of data analysis and visualization with R is introduced.

Learning Objectives

  • The foundations, frameworks and applications of the emerging field of data science
  • Design, implement, and evaluate the core algorithms underlying an end-to- end data science workflow, including data import, analysis, and presentation of information
  • Leverage the R application programming interface (API) ecosystem and data infrastructure that supports data acquisition, storage, retrieval and analysis
  • The application of a data-based analytical approach to identify and solve problems
  • Implementation and execution skills for data-driven business analytics

Tentative Schedule of Topics

  1. Statistical Programming with R
  2. Getting Data
  3. Working with data frames
  4. Visualization
  5. Geographic data, geocoding and mapping
  6. Network Analysis
  7. Text Mining
  8. Advanced Machine Learning Topics

Exam

  • Data Wrangling and Visualization
  • Functions in R
  • Modelling
  • Webscraping