BCH2024-2012

Exploratory Data Analysis using R

This is the 2012 BCH2024 course on Exploratory data analysis using R taught by Boris Steipe at the University of Toronto.

Organization

All sessions will take place in MSB 3290.

Meeting times are:

• Thursday, Aug. 23 14:00-16:00
• Friday, Aug. 24 14:00-16:00
• Tuesday, Aug. 28 10:00-12:00
• Thursday, Aug. 30 14:00-16:00

In addition to the course sessions, there are a number of lab modules for you to work through at home.

Auditors are welcome IF they commit to participating actively in all sessions.

Grading will be 50% course participation and 50% mini project.

Course participation is:

• Being prepared for and actively participating in class.
• Contributing to e-mail discussion of questions arising from the course material or the lab modules.

The mini project comprises:

• Search for an R package that implements an analysis relevant to EDA in the scope your thesis project. Alternatively you can come up with a creative, interesting use of the default R functionality in script form, or as a function that you write.
• Summarize what you plan to do, eMail me your proposal and have me sign off on the suitability of the proposal.
• Develop a script that guides a user through installation of the package (or defines your function) and executes a typical use case. Don't forget to include a sample dataset. Make sure your script is extensively annotated with comments and that you include notes on the interpretation of results.
• Submit your script and sample data to me no later than Friday morning, Aug. 31.

 

 

 

Links and Material

• The course R tutorial

Lecture slides

• Module 4 - Regression (PDF, 1.9 MB)

R scripts for ...

• ... Module 1 (Landscape)
• ... Module 2 and 3 (EDA, Plotting)
• ... Module 4 (Regression)

Data sets:

• GvHD.txt (Graft vs. Host Disease, cell-sorter)
• hiv.raw.data.24h.txt
• logcho_237_4class.txt

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