Detailed information about the course
| Title | Advanced Data Management & Manipulation using R (2019) |
| Dates | 25-26 November 2019 |
| Organizer(s) | Dr Marta Bellone, Coordinator of the CUSO Doctoral Program in Ecology and Evolution Dr Sara Santi, Coordinator of the Interuniversity Doctoral Program in Organismal Biology, UNINE
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| Speakers | Dr Jan Wunder, Wunder Consulting Wald, ZH
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| Description | The analysis of large data sets ("big data") is becoming increasingly important in science and elsewhere. In this course you will learn how to use R to manage and manipulate large data sets, i.e. to sort, merge, subset, aggregate and reshape data, including outlier detection and gap filling algorithms.
For advanced data manipulation, we are going to use novel developments such as dplyr ("A Grammar of Data Manipulation"), the pipe operator (%>%) for simpler R-coding and data.table for the fast aggregation of large data sets. Furthermore, we will have a closer look at R-data base connections, SQL queries and the creation of new data bases from R.
Depending on the course progress, there will be scope for individuals to work on small projects and/ or their own data sets.
Participants will be able to apply R as a powerful tool to manage, manipulate and analyse their own data sets. Particularly, there are going to learn:
Course outline:
The completion of an homework will be requested after the end of the course (deadline: 13 December 2019).
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| Location |
University of Fribourg |
| Credits | 1.0 ECTS |
| Evaluation | Course completion requirements:
Please, reserve a day after the course for the completion of the homework!
1.0 ECTS will be attributed only after the completion of the homework. Certificates will be sent by post-mail or uploaded online after succesful completion of the homework
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| Information | Familiarity with R before attending the workshop or previous attendance of an introductory course to R.
For information: An Introduction to R, 4-7 June 2019, University of Lausanne
Bring your own laptop to the workshop with recent versions of R and R-Studio installed. Make sure that your laptop is properly connecting to the University of Fribourg or eduroam WLAN.
When? November 25-26 2019 9:00 to 17:00
Where? University of Fribourg Perolles Campus Chemin du Musée, 10 1700 Fribourg
/!\ Room changes! Monday: all day in PER 05 Building, Seminar room 0.367 (E&E seminar room) Tuesday morning: Seminar room 0.367 (E&E seminar room) Tuesday afternoon: PER 17 building, room 0.36
Questions?
Marta Bellone Phone: +41 (0)26 300 88 91
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| Expenses | Reimbursement:
PhD students of the DPEE are eligible for reimbursement of incurred travel expenses by train (half-fare card, and 2nd class). Please send the original tickets along with the reimbursement form to:
Marta Bellone Ecology and Evolution University of Fribourg Chemin du Musée, 10 CH-1700 Fribourg
NO reimbursement of your meal expenses
Regarding reimbursement of accomodation, please contact the coordinator of the doctoral program (ecologie-evolution(at)cuso.ch) BEFORE the beginning of the course. NO reimbursement of accomodation without the agreement in advance of the course of the coordinator of the doctoral program.
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| Registration | Priority is given to PhD students from the Doctoral Programs in Organismal Biology and CUSO Ecology-Evolution (8 places each) until October 26 2019. After this deadline, first comes, first serves
CUSO PhD students: through your MyCUSO account
External participants (non-CUSO PhD students, post-docs, etc...): use the icon "registration" at the top of this page and then the last gray box "non-CUSO student" ("personne hors myCUSO").
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| Places | 16 |
| Deadline for registration | 11.11.2019 |
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