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Introduction to R

Join Robert Biddle, a data professional with over 10 years of experience, for an engaging session on R, a programming language used for statistics, data mining, analysis, and discovery. Learn basic commands, data types, plotting, and explore the wide range of applications of R.

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Introduction to R

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  1. Introduction to R By Robert Biddle

  2. About Me • Data Professional with over 10 years experience. • Hilton Grand Vacations, Orlando • Data Architect • MCITP Database Administrator and Developer certified • Author for MSSQLTips.com • Email: rob.biddle@gmail.com • Twitter: @robert_biddle • Blog: https://robbiddle.wordpress.com/

  3. Agenda • What is this thing?? • Overview of the Environment • Basic Commands • Data Types • Plots • Neat Stuff • SQL • HTML • Application Servers

  4. What is R? • R is a programming language for statistics and data visualization. • It’s commonly used for computation, statistics, data mining, data analysis, and data discovery.

  5. Why R? • R is free, open source • Easy to use • Interactive • Flexible • Fast • Active, helpful community • Thousands of free add-on packages • Increased in popularity • Widely used in academia • Growing in professional – exceeding SAS and SPSS • http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

  6. SQL Server 2016 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/server-cloud/products/sql-server-2016/

  7. Tools • Download and Install: • R: http://www.r-project.org/ • Rstudio: http://www.rstudio.com/

  8. Documentation & Information • http://www.r-project.org/ • http://rseek.org/ • http://www.r-bloggers.com/

  9. Demo

  10. Contact and References • Rob.biddle@gmail.com // @robert_biddle // https://robbiddle.wordpress.com/ • http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Torfs+Brauer-Short-R-Intro.pdf • http://jenstirrup.com/ • http://tinyurl.com/o7uw6qh • http://rgraphicsdevice.codeplex.com/ • http://vnijs.github.io/radiant/ • http://shiny.rstudio.com/ • http://r4stats.com/articles/popularity/

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