Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers

Overview

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Welcome to Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers!

This course is for students who have little to no familiarity with the R programming language and want to learn more about how to use R to import, wrangle, visualize, and analyze data.

The course will provide students with “hands-on” training for analyzing data with the R programming language for statistical computing, a popular open-source solution for data analysis and visualization.

Instructors

Carrie Wright (cwrigh60 at jhu.edu), Ava Hoffman (ava.hoffman at jhu.edu), Clifton McKee (cmckee7 at jhu.edu)

Teaching Assistant

Padmashri Saravanan (psarava1 at jhu.edu), Alex Newman (anewma28 at jhu.edu)

Class

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• January 8-12 and 16-19, 2024 1:30PM-4:50PM on Zoom - In recognition of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, there will be no class on Monday January 15th, 2024.
• Zoom link will be emailed prior to the first class.
• Installation Instructions - This is required before the course, but we can help you on the first day (or before) if you have trouble.
• Slack Workspace invitation will be sent directly via email.
• CoursePlus Website
• Syllabus
• Materials + Schedule
• Resources

Testimonials

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“Thanks all for a wonderful course! I feel super confident in R now and I am excited to apply what we learned to future projects. Cheers !!”

“I feel like a data witch now! I just say poof and the data looks the way I want”

“OK - this is getting to be too much fun now”

“My 14 year old thinks this class looks cool and wants to take it (she’s a wanna be engineer)”

Find an Error!?

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Feel free to submit typos/errors/etc via the GitHub repository associated with the class: https://github.com/jhudsl/intro_to_r

This page was last updated on 2024-04-18.

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