What is Data Science?

The best description of what Data Science is given by Grolemund and Wickham in their book R for Data Science.

What is Data Science?

What is Data Science?

What is Data Science?

If you have not already done so you should

1. Download and install R from r-project.org

2. Download and install RStudio rstudio.com

3. Get an RStudio Cloud account RStudio Cloud

• Read Chapter 1 What is data science?

• Read the Appendix A, B, and D

• Install these packages

install.packages("tidyverse")

install.packages("mdsr"")

We will be practicing Reproducible Research using R Markdown and R Projects.

Or as Hadley Wickham describes it, start "Living a reproducible life."

1. R Scripts
2. R Notebooks
3. R Projects

(Eventually we will use github to perform version control.)

Try all of the code in Appendix B and E.