Data Analyst in R

Career Path: From zero to job-ready in 5 months

Equip yourself with the necessary R skills to land your first job as a data analyst - or take your career to the next level by adding this in-demand programming language. You'll learn how to program with R to explore and extract data and create data visualizations. By the end, you'll be able to present insights thanks to deep statistical analysis.

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93,058 learners enrolled in this path.
  • Beginner friendly
  • 5 months (5 hrs/week)
  • Self paced
  • 23 Courses
  • 18 projects

Path overview

In this path, you'll learn the fundamentals of R and build upon them with more advanced skills. You'll learn how to use RStudio, applications and tools, tidyverse, DataFrames, tibbles, operators, expressions, and much more - as well as data visualization, graphs, plots, and charts. Best of all, you'll learn by doing - you'll write code and get feedback directly in the browser. You'll apply your skills to several guided projects involving realistic business scenarios to build your portfolio and prepare for your next interview.

R skills you'll learn

  • Programming with R to perform complex statistical analysis of large datasets
  • Performing SQL queries and web-scraping to explore and extract data from databases and websites
  • Performing efficient data analysis from start to finish
  • Building insightful data visualizations to tell stories

Data Analyst in R path outline

8 steps · 23 courses

Part 1: Introduction to R [4 courses]

Introduce yourself to the R programming language.

Part 2: Data Visualization in R [1 courses]

Learn to use R for data visualization.

Part 3: Data Cleaning in R [2 courses]

Learn the basics of data cleaning in R.

Part 4: Working with Data Sources Using SQL [6 courses]

Learn about working with data in databases.

Part 5: APIs and Web Scraping in R [2 courses]

Learn about working with data on the web.

Part 6: Probability and Statistics [5 courses]

Learn probability and statistics for more robust data analysis using R.

Part 7: Predictive Modeling and Machine Learning in R [2 courses]

Learn predictive modeling using R.

Part 8: Shiny Applications in R [1 courses]

Learn how to create an interactive web application with the Shiny package.

R projects you'll build

18 hands-on projects across the path

Project

Analyzing Forest Fire Data

For this project, we'll step into the role of data analysts to explore a dataset on forest fires. Using R and data visualization techniques, we'll analyze trends and factors related to fire occurrence and severity.

40 min
Project

NYC Schools Perceptions

For this project, you'll become a data analyst using R Notebooks to clean, reshape and visualize NYC school survey data, uncovering insights into school quality perceptions.

25 min
Project

Mobile App for Lottery Addiction

For this project, you'll take on the role of a data analyst at a medical institute, using probability and combinatorics in R to develop a mobile app that helps lottery addicts better estimate their chances of winning.

3 min
Project

Investigative Statistical Analysis - Analyzing Accuracy in Data Presentation

For this project, you'll be a data journalist analyzing Fandango's movie ratings to determine if there was any change after a 2015 analysis found evidence of bias. You'll use R and statistics skills to compare movie ratings data from 2015 and 2016.

4 min
Project

Winning Jeopardy

For this project, we'll assume the role of a Jeopardy contestant analyzing a dataset of past questions, using chi-squared tests and text analysis in R to identify common categories and develop optimal strategies.

3 min

+ 13 more projects throughout the path

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Aaron Melton
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.

Jessica Ko
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 E. Guzik
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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