Course Overview
- Course Title: Hands-On R Programming: Build Real World Data Projects
- Instructor: Brighter Futures Hub (Udemy Instructor)
- Target Audience:
- Beginners with no prior R programming experience
- Data science enthusiasts, statistics students, and professionals in business analytics, healthcare, or finance
- Learners seeking practical, project-based training in R programming
- Prerequisites: None
Curriculum Highlights
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Key Topics Covered:
- Introduction to R: History, applications, and installation (R + RStudio)
- R Syntax & Data Structures:
- Data types, vectors, matrices, arrays, data frames, and lists
- Control Flow & Functions:
- Conditional statements (
if-else), loops (for,while), and user-defined functions
- Conditional statements (
- Data Manipulation:
- dplyr (
filter,select,mutate,arrange) - tidyr (
pivot_longer,pivot_wider) - Joining/merging datasets
- dplyr (
- Data Visualization:
- Static plots (scatter, bar, line, histograms) with custom aesthetics
- Interactive plots
- Statistics & Analysis:
- Descriptive statistics (mean, median, standard deviation)
- Hypothesis testing (t-tests, chi-squared tests)
- Regression analysis (linear, multiple regression)
- Real-World Projects:
- Data cleaning, exploratory data analysis (EDA), and automated reporting
- Machine learning basics (using
caretandrandomForest)
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Key Skills Learned:
- R programming from scratch with best practices
- Data wrangling and transformation for real-world datasets
- Statistical analysis and hypothesis testing
- Data visualization for business, healthcare, and finance applications
- Project structuring, documentation, and presentation
Course Format
- Duration: 2.5 hours on-demand video
- Format: Self-paced online course (lifetime access)
- Resources:
- Mobile and TV access
- Certificate of completion
- No downloadable materials or quizzes (beyond video lectures)


