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<h2>R Course in Rio de Janeiro</h2>
<p>We are preparing an R for Data-Science course (direct link <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibpad.com.br/produto/ciencia-de-dados-com-r-rj/" target="_blank">here</a>) in partnership with the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibpad.com.br/" target="_blank">IBPAD</a> (Brazilian Institute of Research and Data Analysis). It is a great course for those who want to have a solid start in R. No prior knowledge in statistics, calculus or programming is required.</p>
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<p>The course starts in October 16th and it has a duration of three weeks (every Monday to Wednesday). The classes are in Portuguese. These are some of the topics:</p>
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<li>What is R: Motivation and uses</li>
<li>RStudio</li>
<li>Creating your first objects</li>
<li>R packages</li>
<li>Data import and export</li>
<li>Object types</li>
<li>Data Frames: Manipulating and transforming your data</li>
<li>Statistical functions for descriptive analysis</li>
<li>Plots</li>
<li>Data visualization using ggplot2</li>
<li>Welcome to the community: Stack Overflow, Tidyverse, R-Bloggers, Books</li>
<li>Defining functions</li>
<li>Ifelse and loops</li>
<li>The Apply family</li>
<li>Regression and principal components analysis</li>
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<p>For more information you can visit the <a rel="nofollow" href="http://www.ibpad.com.br/cursos/" target="_blank">IBPAD website</a>. If you do not live in Rio, you may be able to find courses in your city.</p>
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