DataCamp offers interactive R, Python, Sheets, SQL and shell courses on topics in data science, statistics and machine learning. You can learn from a team of expert teachers in the comfort of your browser with video lessons and fun coding challenges and projects.

DataCamp in this course

As a student in this course, you will receive a six month subscription to DataCamp’s ‘premium’ materials. We will use DataCamp to reinforce your learning and assess your development. Throughout the semester, various chapters/courses will be assigned via DataCamp. I have assigned due dates to each DataCamp assignment that are aligned with course content and case studies. It is highly recommened to complete the assigned chapters by the due dates designated in your DataCamp ‘classroom’, but in terms of your grade the only deadline is the end of the semester.

See Syllabus for more information.

Additional recommended DataCamp courses

The courses listed below are optional (if not assigned in your classroom) but you may find them useful to further your own development (or even to work on your final project in this or other courses).

See all the available courses in DataCamp here..

Foundational Skills

• Introduction to R

Data Wrangling

• Importing Data in R (Part 1)
• Importing Data in R (Part 2)
• Cleaning Data in R
• Importing & Cleaning Data in R: Case Studies
• Introduction to the tidyverse

Modeling

• Exploratory Data Analysis in R: Case Study
• Statistical Modeling in R (Part 1)
• Statistical Modeling in R (Part 2)

Spatial Analyses and Networks

• Working with Geospatial Data in R (uses the older sp package instead of sf)
• Spatial Analysis in R with sf and raster
• Spatial Statistics in R
• Network Science in R - A Tidy Approach
• Interactive Maps with leaflet in R

Visualization & Communication

• Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 1)
• Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 2)
• Data Visualization with ggplot2 (Part 3)
• Visualizing Time Series Data in R
• Reporting with R Markdown
• Communicating with Data in the Tidyverse

DataCamp Certification

DataCamp is a respected source of online courses in data science topics. After you complete a DataCamp “course”“, you can download certificates or post certified skills to your LinkedIn page. You could also potentially add the courses you complete to your CV.