Introduction to Data Science and R Programming
Overview of Data Science
The Role of R in Data Science
Setting Up R and RStudio
Basic R Programming Concepts (Data Types, Control Structures, Functions)
Introduction to R Packages (tidyverse, ggplot2, dplyr)
Data Importing and Data Wrangling
Importing Data from Various Sources (CSV, Excel, SQL, JSON)
Data Cleaning Techniques
Handling Missing Values and Outliers
Data Transformation and Manipulation with dplyr
Using tidyr for Data Tidying
Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA)
Descriptive Statistics and Summary Statistics
Data Visualization Techniques with ggplot2
Identifying Patterns and Outliers
Correlation and Causation
Using R for Exploratory Data Analysis
Data Visualization
Principles of Effective Data Visualization
Creating Basic Plots (Histograms, Scatter Plots, Box Plots)
Advanced Visualization Techniques (Faceting, Theming)
Interactive Visualizations with plotly and Shiny
Creating Dashboards with R Shiny
Introduction to Machine Learning
Machine Learning Concepts and Terminology
Types of Machine Learning (Supervised, Unsupervised, Reinforcement)
The Machine Learning Workflow
Introduction to the caret Package
Model Evaluation Metrics (Accuracy, Precision, Recall, F1 Score)
Supervised Learning – Regression
Simple Linear Regression
Multiple Linear Regression
Polynomial Regression
Regularization Techniques (Ridge, Lasso)
Evaluating Regression Models (R-squared, RMSE)
Supervised Learning – Classification
Logistic Regression
K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN)
Decision Trees and Random Forests
Support Vector Machines (SVM)
Evaluating Classification Models (Confusion Matrix, ROC Curve)
Unsupervised Learning
Introduction to Clustering
K-Means Clustering
Hierarchical Clustering
Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
Anomaly Detection Techniques
Advanced Machine Learning Techniques
Ensemble Learning Methods (Bagging, Boosting, Stacking)
Gradient Boosting Machines (xgboost, LightGBM, CatBoost)
Introduction to Neural Networks
Deep Learning with TensorFlow and Keras in R
Natural Language Processing (NLP) with R (text mining, tm, quanteda)
Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
Model Deployment and Productionization
Saving and Loading Models
Creating APIs for Model Deployment with Plumber
Using Docker for Containerization
Introduction to Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP)
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for ML Models
Big Data Technologies with R
Introduction to Big Data and Hadoop
Working with Spark and the sparklyr Package
NoSQL Databases (MongoDB, Cassandra) with R
Data Lakes and Data Warehouses
Real-Time Data Processing with Kafka and R
Advanced Analytics and Case Studies
Predictive Analytics
Prescriptive Analytics
Text Analytics and Sentiment Analysis
Image Processing and Computer Vision with R
Case Studies from Various Industries (Finance, Healthcare, Retail)
Ethics and Best Practices in Data Science
Data Privacy and Security
Ethical Issues in Data Science
Bias and Fairness in Machine Learning
Interpretability and Explainability
Best Practices for Data Science Projects
Capstone Project
Defining the Problem Statement
Data Collection and Preparation
Exploratory Data Analysis
Model Building and Evaluation
Deploying the Model
Presenting the Project and Insights