How to get started with R ProgrammingRamon E. Salazar – Business Intelligence Professional

The case for R programming• Almost all data science packages integrate with R, that’s why it is so important to use it. That includes our main

partner, Tableau.

• Additionally, R is free (open source), meaning that we could provide our consulting services even without• Requiring the client to invest in a predictive analytical tool (if they do not have one)

Why Learn R?Objective: Gain knowledge in the most popular programming language for Data Scientist. Being able to Create a simple linear regression model with R.

R Studio

R Programming Language Libraries

In order to use R, you first need to learn R Studio. Please download from the two links below

R programming/ R StudioObjective: Install and configure R development environment

Learning R Studio IDE and basics

Free options for learning R studio:

• R studio official online learning website with tutorials, webminars and tips

• UCLA R studio tutorial

• Princeton R Studio Introduction (PDF)

• Introduction to R studio Free Video

Objective: Learning R studio and basic R

Pluralsight courses (paid)Paid option for Learning R Studio (Pluralsight) Link to Rstudio course in Pluralsight

Advanced• Understanding Machine Learning with R

• Mastering Data Visualization with R

Visualization Beginning Data Visualization with R Multivariate Data Visualization with R

Start with R Programming Fundamental Data Science with R Exploratory Data Analysis with R

Pluralsight has a good selection of hands-on R courses, listed below

Pluralsight courses (paid)

Books One of the best books for R programming is

Hands on with commercial tools.Objective: Complete at least one linear regression model using commercial tools: Spotfire, Alteryx and others..

Why linear regression? . From all the data science techniques, this is the easiest and most popular one.

In Tableau, Predictive analysis done via R integration.

Resource #1 White Paper “ Advanced Analytics with Tableau”

Link White Paper Advanced Analytics with Tableau

Link Tableau manual - Pass Expressions to R

Resource #2 – Video

Link Video Advanced Analytics with Tableau

 

Tableau (R integration)

Github-online community with code and repositories

Kaggle-online community for Data Scientist