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## DSCE Business Analytics Conclave Workshop

19th, 20th & 21st April, 2pm - 5pm

If you run into issues while installing the softwares required for 
the workshop, please reach out to us @ rsquaredin@gmail.com or 7259970037.

## Introduction

Materials for the workshop. Please install all the required softwares and
download the data sets and scripts from this repository before the
workshop. **The final version of the materials will be available by
6 PM Wednesday (18/04/2018). Please ensure that you download them before 
coming to the workshop.**

- [Workshop Material Download Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157284)

## Software Prerequisites

### R

R can be installed from the R project [website](https://cran.r-project.org/).
Please install the latest version 3.4.4. 

- [R Download Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157309)
- [R Installation Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157340)

Download and install Rtools from [here](http://cran.us.r-project.org/bin/windows/Rtools/).

### RStudio

RStudio IDE can be installed from the RStudio [website](https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/). Install the free
desktop version.

- [RStudio Download Demo](https://vimeo.com/265158190)
- [RStudio Installation Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157379)

### R Packages

Below are a list of R packages required for the workshop:

#### First Day

- readr
- readxl
- haven
- dplyr
- ggplot2
- magrittr
- descriptr
- skimr

#### Second Day

- inferr
- olsrr
- blorr
- rmarkdown
- knitr
- devtools
- forcats
- caret


Once you download the workshop materials, run the script (`package_download.R`) in the `R` folder to download the above packages as shown in the below video:

- [R Packages Installation Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157256)

To test if a package has been correctly installed or not, type `library(packagename)` in the
RStudio console. For example, to test if **readr** package has been installed, type 
`library(readr)` in the RStudio console. If the package has not been installed correctly, you
will get the following error message:

`Error in library(readr) : there is no package called ‘readr’`

There will be no error message if the package has been correctly installed.

### Anaconda

Download and install the Anaconda distribution from their [website](https://www.anaconda.com/download/). We will use [Jupyter Notebook](http://jupyter.org/) for the python session.

- [Anaconda Download Demo](https://vimeo.com/265158166)
- [Anaconda Installation Demo](https://vimeo.com/265157200)

After installing the Anaconda distribution for Python, open the Command Prompt (type cmd) or Windows Powershell (type powershell)
and type `jupyter notebook`.

- [Jupyter Notebook Demo](https://vimeo.com/265161739)

## R Session

- Quick tour of R & RStudio
- Importing data into R
- Data Wrangling
- Data Visualization
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Linear Regression
- Logistic Regression

## Python Session

- Data Wrangling with Pandas
- Data Visualization 
    - matplotlib
    - bokeh
    - plotly
- Modeling with statsmodels

## Useful Resources

- [Rstudio Webinars](https://www.rstudio.com/resources/webinars/)
- [RStudio Cheat Sheets](https://www.rstudio.com/resources/cheatsheets/)
- [tidyverse](https://www.tidyverse.org/)
- [R Bloggers](https://www.r-bloggers.com/)
- [R Weekly](https://rweekly.org/)