Data Cleaning and Preprocessing using R

Wednesday, September 23, 2026 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.

Learn basic programming in R through practical data pre-processing tasks. Participants will learn how to use R to import, inspect, clean, transform, summarize, reshape, and export messy datasets. The session will include guided demonstrations and hands-on exercises where attendees practice writing R code using common tools and packages.

Learning outcomes:

- Introduction to R
- Importing and inspecting data
- Cleaning column names and fixing data types
- Filtering, selecting, mutating, and summarizing data with dplyr
- Handling missing values, duplicates, and inconsistent categories
- Reshaping data with tidyr
- Exporting cleaned data for analysis

To participate in the hands-on exercises during the session, you will need to bring your own laptop equipped to install software specific to the lesson.

Presented by Satyar Foroughi

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Location:

R1:101: Research 1, Room 101 [ View Website ]

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Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure ResearchIT@ucf.edu

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r programming Data Processing research computing