R Programming Capstone
This course is part of the Mastering Software Development in R Specialization
Mastering Software Development in R Capstone
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Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week
121 minutes to complete
Obtain and Clean the Data
The overall goal of the capstone project is to integrate the skills you have developed over the courses in this Specialization and to build a software package that can be used to work with the NOAA Significant Earthquakes dataset.
1 video (Total 1 min), 2 readings
1 video
2 readings
Introduction10m
Module 1: Obtain and Clean the Data10m
Week
210 minutes to complete
Building Geoms
Show us when earthquakes occurred in different countries, their magnitude, and their toll on human life.
1 reading
1 reading
Module 2: Visualization Tools10m
Week
310 minutes to complete
Building a Leaflet Map
Show and annotate the earthquake epicenters.
1 reading
1 reading
Module 3: Mapping Tools10m
Week
42 hours to complete
Documentation and Packaging
Documentation is one of the most important and most commonly overlooked steps when writing software, but you're not going to let that happen in your project.
2 readings, 1 quiz
2 readings
Documentation and Packaging Tasks10m
Testing10m
Instructors
Roger D. Peng, PhD
Associate Professor, BiostatisticsBloomberg School of Public Health
Brooke Anderson
Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health SciencesColorado State University
About Johns Hopkins University
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About the Mastering Software Development in R Specialization
R is a programming language and a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics, widely used by data analysts, data scientists and statisticians. This Specialization covers R software development for building data science tools. As the field of data science evolves, it has become clear that software development skills are essential for producing and scaling useful data science results and products.
This Specialization will give you rigorous training in the R language, including the skills for handling complex data, building R packages, and developing custom data visualizations. You’ll be introduced to indispensable R libraries for data manipulation, like tidyverse, and data visualization and graphics, like ggplot2. You’ll learn modern software development practices to build tools that are highly reusable, modular, and suitable for use in a team-based environment or a community of developers.
This Specialization is designed to serve both data analysts, who may want to gain more familiarity with hands-on, fundamental software skills for their everyday work, as well as data mining experts and data scientists, who may want to use R to scale their developing and programming skills, and further their careers as data science experts.
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