Introduction to Analytics

Introduction to Analytics
Introduction to R, Rstudio, knitr, LaTeX, SQL, beamer, and Git. Build and access an SQL database. Propose and prepare written and oral presentations answering a question of interest to a non-technical decision maker.
STAT
281
 Hours3.0 Credit, 3.0 Lecture, 0.0 Lab
 PrerequisitesSTAT 121; or STAT 201; or STAT 151
 TaughtFall
Course Outcomes

Install Packages

Install R, R packages, RStudio, Latex, VPN, and MSQL Workbench

Databases

Create and access a MySQL database

Git

Keep track of code versions using Git

Presentation in Beamer

Prepare oral presentations in beamer

Latex Reports

Prepare a non-technical written report in Latex

knitr

Prepare documentation and reproducible code using knitr