Data Science with R
R is the most widely used programming language, and when used in association with data
science, this powerful combination will solve the complexities involved with unstructured
datasets in the real world. This course covers the entire data science ecosystem for aspiring
data scientists, right from zero to a level where you are confident enough to get hands -on
with real-world data science problems.
The course starts with an introduction to data science and introduces readers to popular R
libraries for executing data science routine tasks. This course covers all the important
processes in data science such as data gathering, cleaning data, and then uncovering patterns
from it. You will explore algorithms such as machine learning algorithms, predictive analytical
models, and finally deep learning algorithms. You will learn to run the most powerful
visualization packages available in R so as to ensure that you can easily derive insights from
your data.
Towards the end, you will also learn how to integrate R with Spark and Hadoop and perform
large-scale data analytics without much complexity.
What you will learn
• Understand the R programming language and its ecosystem of packages for data science
• Obtain and clean your data before processing
• Master essential exploratory techniques for summarizing data
• Examine various machine learning prediction, models
• Explore the H2O analytics platform in R for deep learning
• Apply data mining techniques to available datasets
• Work with interactive visualization packages in R
• Integrate R with Spark and Hadoop for large-scale data analytics
Course Contents
Getting Started with Data Science and R
• Introduction to data science
• Active domains of data science
• Solving problems with data science
• Using R for data science
• Our first R program
Descriptive and Inferential Statistics
• Measures of central tendency and dispersion
• Statistical hypothesis testing
Data Wrangling with R
• Introduction to data wrangling with R
• Data extraction, transformation, and load
• Miscellaneous topics
KDD, Data Mining, and Text Mining
• Good practices of KDD and data mining
• Scraping a dwarf name
• Retrieving text from the web
• Retrieving tweets from R community 
• Cleaning and transforming data
• Looking for patterns – peeking, visualizing, and clustering data
Data Analysis with R
• Preparing data for analysis
• Data visualisation
• Saving analysis for future work
Machine Learning with R
• What is machine learning?
• Linear regression with R
• Tree models
• Random forests
• Support vector machines
• What about regressions?
• Hierarchical and k-means clustering
• Neural networks
Forecasting and ML App with R
• The UI and server
• Forecasting machine learning application
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
• Daily neural nets
• Overview NNs and deep learning
• NNs with Keras
Markovian in R
• Markovian-type models
• Programming an HMM with R
Visualizing Data
• Retrieving and cleaning data
• Crafting visualizations
Going to Production with R
• What is R Shiny?
• How to build a Shiny app
• Building an application inside R
• Approach for creating a data product from statistical modelling and web UI
Large Scale Data Analytics with Hadoop
• Installing the package and Spark
• Manipulating Spark data using both dplyr and SQL
• Filtering and aggregating Spark datasets 
• Using Spark machine learning or H2O Sparking Water
• Providing interfaces to Spark packages
• Spark DataFrames within the RStudio IDE
R on Cloud
• Cloud computing
• Azure registration
• Azure Machine Learning Studio