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Wednesday, July 29, 2026
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
3 p.m. – 4 p.m.
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Decode R to fuel your research (GradProSkills workshop)
Speaker(s)
Alana Rivera Matos
Cost
This event is free.
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Where
Online
This training is offered by GradProSkills. It is only open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.
Advance registration is required.
Do you have data you'd like to analyze? Would you like to gain insights from your data and communicate them with eye-catching visualizations and reports? Are you tired of being chained to Excel or expensive proprietary software? If the answer to any of these questions is "Yes!", then this workshop is for you. R is an open-source and versatile programming language that's perfect for data analysis, visualization, and science communication.
In this all-in-one course, you'll learn the basics of programming and be introduced to the RStudio interface. We'll then move on to the basics of vectors and data frames while getting a glimpse of how to visualize your data, which will lead us to the understanding of data import and cleaning. At last, you’ll be equipped with the tools to make publication-quality plots and will learn to generate statistical analysis to communicate your findings; all within the R ecosystem!
In this workshop, participants will:
- Familiarize themselves with R and RStudio capabilities that they can apply to them;
- Create projects in R Studio;
- Discover the terminology of basic coding in R, such as operators, script, library, function, CSV, conditions, data frame, etc.;
- Install different R packages;
- Identify and deal with different types of variables within R;
- Use vectors and data frames to store, clean and manipulate data;
- Import and export data within the R ecosystem;
- Construct eye-catching graphs and figures with R baseline packages and additional ones
- Perform basic statistics analysis within R
This workshop has a collaborative and interactive structure, leveraging Udemy, Moodle, and live bi-weekly Q/A sessions.