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Data Analysis and Visualization in R

Module IN2339

This Module is offered by TUM Department of Informatics.

This module handbook serves to describe contents, learning outcome, methods and examination type as well as linking to current dates for courses and module examination in the respective sections.

Basic Information

IN2339 is a semester module in English language at Bachelor’s level and Master’s level which is offered in winter semester.

This Module is included in the following catalogues within the study programs in physics.

  • Focus Area Bio-Sensors in M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering and Medical Physics
Total workloadContact hoursCredits (ECTS)
180 h 90 h 6 CP

Content, Learning Outcome and Preconditions

Content

R programming basics 1
R programming basics 2 (including report generation with R markdown)
Data importing
Cleaning and organizing data: Tidy data 1
Cleaning and organizing data: Tidy data 2
Base plot
Grammar of graphics 1
Grammar of graphics 2
Unsupervised learning (hierarchical clustering, k-means, PCA)
Case study I
Drawing robust interpretations 1: empirical testing by sampling
Drawing robust interpretations 2: classical statistical tests
Supervised learning 1: regression, cross-validation
Supervised learning 2: classification, ROC curve, precision, recall
Case study II

Learning Outcome

At the end of the module students are able to:
- 1. produce scripts that automatically generate data analysis report
- 2. import data from various sources into R
- 3. apply the concepts of tidy data to clean and organize a dataset
- 4. decide which plot is appropriate for a given question about the data
- 5. generate such plots
- 6. know the methods of hierarchical clustering, k-means, PCA
- 7. apply the above methods and interpret their outcome on real-life datasets
- 8. know the concept of statistical testing
- 9. devise and implement resampling procedures to assess statistical significance
- 10. know the conditions of applications and how to perform in R the following statistical tests: Fisher test, Wilcoxon test, T-test.
- 11. know the concept of regression and classification
- 12 apply regression and classification algorithms in R
- 13. know the concept of error in generalization, cross-validation
- 14. implement in R a cross-validation scheme.
- 15. know the concepts of sensitivity, specificity, ROC curves
- 16. assess the latter in R

Preconditions

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Courses, Learning and Teaching Methods and Literature

Courses and Schedule

TypeSWSTitleLecturer(s)DatesLinks
VO 2 Data Analysis and Visualization in R (IN2339) Gagneur, J. Tue, 14:00–16:00, virtuell
eLearning
UE 4 Exercise Data Analysis and Visualization in R (IN2339) Gagneur, J. Tue, 14:00–16:00, Interims II 004
and dates in groups

Learning and Teaching Methods

Lecture provides the concept + programming exercises where these concepts are applied on data. The goal of each exercise is the generation of report documents.

Media

Weekly posted exercises online, slides, live demo

Literature

An Introduction to Statistical Learning
with Applications in R http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~gareth/ISL/
R for Data Science, by Garrett Grolemund and Hadley Wickham

Module Exam

Description of exams and course work

Written exam and project work:
The listed achievements, see Intended Learning Outcomes, are evaluated by one written exam of 90 min. There will be moreover two case studies, where the students must provide the source code that generates the report of an analysis of a given dataset. The analysis of this data covers all topics stated under Intended Learning Outcomes. The first case study covers topics 1-7. The second covers the topics 8-16. The final mark is the exam mark with bonus points for the two case studies.

Exam Repetition

The exam may be repeated at the end of the semester.

Current exam dates

Currently TUMonline lists the following exam dates. In addition to the general information above please refer to the current information given during the course.

Title
TimeLocationInfoRegistration
Data Analysis and Visualization in R
2001
1200
N1190
101
00.02.001
1801
2501
0980
004
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