4189141 1136742 4189141 1 Events at UCF events-at-ucf https://events.ucf.edu/calendar/1/events-at-ucf/ Data Cleaning and Preprocessing Using R Wed, 30 Sep 2026 14:00:00 -0400 Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:00:00 -0400 R1:101 Research 1, Room 101
US United States
en-US Learn the basics of 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. Guided demonstrations and hands-on exercises will give 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

Prerequisites for Hands-On Exercises:  

1. Bring your own laptop.
2. Install R. 
3. Install RStudio.

Need help installing R or RStudio? Drop in during virtual office hours. 

The workshop is presented by Satyar Foroughi.

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