R Programming Capstone
Mastering Software Development in R Capstone
Mastering Software Development in R Capstone
This course is part of Mastering Software Development in R Specialization
Instructors: Roger D. Peng, PhD
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3 hours to complete
3 weeks at 1 hour a week
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There are 6 modules in this course
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.
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1 video2 readings
Show us when earthquakes occurred in different countries, their magnitude, and their toll on human life.
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1 reading
Show and annotate the earthquake epicenters.
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1 reading
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.
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2 readings1 peer review
The moment of truth. It's time to push your package to GitHub.
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1 reading
It's time to submit your deployed package for evaluation and to evaluate the work of a few of your classmates.
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1 peer review
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Reviewed on Apr 19, 2020
This course is excellent! I truly learned a lot about software development with R. The only problem is that it is open a few times a year, due to the small number of participants.
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This programming assignment got me to practice essential coding skills for writing and deploying a package in R, which is super helpful.
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