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R for Data Wrangling

From $50

Date(s)
Oct. 5, 7 & 9 2026 (9 a.m.–noon)
Location
A207 Chown building, 753 McDermot Ave.

Event Description

Previous introductory experience with R is required for this workshop.

Facilitator

  • Brenden Dufault
    Senior Biostatistician

Overview

Everyone has heard that “data analysis is 80% loading, cleaning, reshaping and otherwise preparing your data for analysis”. In this 3-day, hands-on workshop, you will learn more advanced techniques that will make your data wrangling easier and more effective. Picking up where our R for Absolute Beginners ended, we will focus on effective techniques for preparing your data for analytic workflows. Specific topics include handling messy and incomplete data, calculating derived fields, and joining multiple pieces of data together.

Contact us before registering if you have not taken our R for Absolute Beginners workshop (or some equivalent).

Learning Objectives

• Practice loading, cleaning and reshaping data originally collected and stored in .CSV and Excel files.

• Learn the basic principles of “tidy data” and how following these principles will make your data analysis work much easier.

• Write scripts for a basic data analysis project from beginning to end – load, clean, prep, summarize, plot, and analyze.

Cost Breakdown

• $50 — Academic trainees and students including post-doctoral students

• $150 — Non-profit organization staff

• $300 — Industry professionals