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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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94,045 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

Investigating COVID-19 Virus Trends

For this project, you'll be a data analyst investigating a real COVID-19 dataset. You'll use R to manipulate and analyze the data, building in-demand skills as you find countries with the highest positive test rates.

58 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

New York Solar Resource Data

For this project, we'll step into the role of data analysts to extract solar resource data for New York City using an API, parse the JSON response, and convert it into a dataframe for analysis in R.

7 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

Predicting Car Prices

For this project, we'll step into the role of data scientists to predict car prices using the k-nearest neighbors algorithm and R, practicing the machine learning workflow on a real dataset.

3 min

+ 13 more projects throughout the path

Earn your Data Analyst in R Certificate

Add this R certificate to your resume or LinkedIn to showcase your skills and stand out in job applications.

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

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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

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