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Data analysis – ideas and tools

As part of a FIRM funded project “Mining And Modelling ; Animal Rotavirus Epidemiology” led by Dr. Helen O’Shea from CIT, we are running a one day seminar in Cork with two goals, to introduce postgradaute students to some basic ideas in data analysis, and to show how to implement these ideas using a powerful open source tool R.

Date – Friday May 30th 2014

Time – 8:30 am for 9am sharp

Place – CIT in Cork

Start

At least a week before the seminar

• Download R from here and RStudio from here
• Install both on your laptop, get them both working.
• Work through the whole of this file, preferably with a colleague. This will take about 2 hours to do. Please try to find answers to your questions as you go along, but feel free to keep more difficult questions for the seminar.

Identify a file of your data that is of interest to you. Put it into one sheet of a spreadsheet (Excel or OpenOffice) and bring it along. During the day you will work on these data. Make sure of the following :-

• All variables are proper numbers or plain text – no spaces, funny characters or punctuation please.
• You have a mixture of numbers and grouping variables
• Data with a time sequence is fine, data with dates and times is not
• All missing data items are represented by the two letters NA and nothing else – no dashes, no 999, 77, 88 or anything else.

(R can cope with all of these, but we will not have time to explain how in this session)

On the day

Schedule

Attending

The seminar is free, but places are strictly limited. If you want to come you must email both Anthony Staines and Helen O’Shea

Useful links

• Quick-R Home page
• R Cookbook