Description: Lecture, three hours. Fundamental skills of data management. Development of strong foundation in R programming language. R is most popular language for statistical analysis and one of most popular languages for data science applications (e.g., web-scraping, interactive maps, network analysis). Students become proficient in data management and R programming through weekly problem sets, completed in groups. No prior experience with R required. S/U or letter grading.

Units: 4.0