Ashray

“I was immensely impressed by how well the math is taught on Dataquest, anyone can learn it. Only the most important concepts are used so you don’t waste time.”

Ashray Adappa

Data Analyst Consultant @Fractal

Course overview

This interactive R course for beginners teaches fundamental data analysis skills and helps you begin your journey to become a successful data professional.

In this course, you’ll learn to use basic arithmetic; write code using R syntax; and work with different data types, values, and vectors in the data analysis workflow, including data exploration, manipulation, analysis, and visualization with R.
Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll write code and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

  • Executing calculations using arithmetic operators
  • Performing basic R operations, such as creating and naming variables
  • Completing the data workflow
  • Writing computer programs using R

Course outline

Introduction to Data Analysis in R [5 lessons]

Introduction to Programming in R 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Implement R programming syntax basics
  • Identify data types
  • Perform calculations using common arithmetic operators

Arithmetic Expressions and Variables in R 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Perform calculations using arithmetics operators
  • Save values using variables
  • Update variables
  • Process numerical data

Logical Expressions in R 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Perform calculations using relational operators
  • Perform calculations using logical operators
  • Employ logical expression

Data Manipulation with R: Basics 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Identify why tidyverse packages are essential for data analysis
  • Import a dataset in R
  • Explore the dataset
  • Visualize the data

Project: Install RStudio 1h

Lesson Objectives
  • Install RStudio
  • Practice programming
  • Improve your data analysis workflow using RStudio

Projects in this course

Project: Install RStudio

Learn how to install and use RStudio, a free and open-source development environment for R.

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Go from zero to job-ready

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Learn exactly what you need to achieve your goal. Don’t waste time on unrelated lessons.

Build your project portfolio

Build your project portfolio

Build confidence with our in-depth projects, and show off your data skills.

Challenge yourself with exercises

Challenge yourself with exercises

Work with real data from day one with interactive lessons and hands-on exercises.

Showcase your path certification

Showcase your path certification

Impress employers by completing a capstone project and certifying it with an expert review.

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Aaron

Aaron Melton

Business Analyst at Aditi Consulting

“Dataquest starts at the most basic level, so a beginner can understand the concepts. I tried learning to code before, using Codecademy and Coursera. I struggled because I had no background in coding, and I was spending a lot of time Googling. Dataquest helped me actually learn.”

Jessi

Jessica Ko

Machine Learning Engineer at Twitter

“I liked the interactive environment on Dataquest. The material was clear and well organized. I spent more time practicing then watching videos and it made me want to keep learning.”

Victoria

Victoria E. Guzik

Associate Data Scientist at Callisto Media

“I really love learning on Dataquest. I looked into a couple of other options and I found that they were much too handhold-y and fill in the blank relative to Dataquest’s method. The projects on Dataquest were key to getting my job. I doubled my income!”

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