WZB R Tutorial study material
Documents for R tutorial given at WZB accompanying the lecture "Studying Social Stratification with Big Data" (Hipp, Ulbricht) in winter semester 2018
View the Project on GitHub WZBSocialScienceCenter/wzb_r_tutorial
R Tutorial at the WZB
Instructor: Markus Konrad markus.konrad@wzb.eu, Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB)
This tutorial course accompanies the lecture “Studying Social Stratification with Big Data” (Hipp, Ulbricht) in winter semester 2018 at University Potsdam.
Study material
1 – Introduction
October 25, 2018
2 – R Basics I
November 01, 2018
3 – R Basics II
November 08, 2018
For this session there are no slides, because I’m not at the WZB to hold a presentation. Instead I provide you with a full document for self-study.
4 – R Basics III
November 15, 2018
For this session there are no slides, because I’m not at the WZB to hold a presentation. Instead I provide you with a full document for self-study.
5 - Transforming data with R I
November 22, 2018
For this session there are no slides, because I’m not at the WZB to hold a presentation. Instead I provide you with a full document for self-study.
6 - Recap / Transforming data with R II
November 29, 2018
7 - Reshaping data / plotting with ggplot2
December 06, 2018
8 - Text mining I
December 13, 2018
- Slides
- 08textmining-resources.zip (additional resources / data files)
- Tasks: See next session below
9 - Text mining II
January 10, 2019
10 - Record linkage
January 17, 2019
11 - Collecting data from the web – Querying APIs and web scraping with R
January 24, 2019
12 - Introduction to Machine Learning with R I
January 31, 2019
13 - Introduction to Machine Learning with R II
February 7, 2019