Why use R? (In-person)
Are you thinking of moving to R from SAS/SPSS? Do you have concerns about how to use R in your organisation? This course allows participants to address of these concerns and determine if R is right for you.
Duration
The duration of the course/workshop spans around 3.5 hours. Chapter 1 offers a 2-hour version, while chapter 2 presents a 1.2-hour demonstration of Posit. The course is designed as an interactive workshop, encouraging engagement through questions and discussions.
Course Outline:
- Getting started with R
- Who is using R in production?
- Removing the pain of reports, via Automation
- Creating dashboards in a hurry
- Question & answer session
Typical questions that arise (and are answered) are,
- We use Excel, Tableau, SAS, SPSS, Matlab. . .what is the value of R compared to this?
- Why ask my team, who are short on time, to learn yet another tool?
- How to manage the change in-house and how long does it take?
- Where do we start with the transformation?
- Is it worth the bother, we will need to spend on training costs at the same time as spending money on licenced software until everyone is up to speed in R?
- How do you get support if we use it? Is R secure?
Session:
By the end of the day participants will understand. . .
- why R is essential for them and their businesses
- why many top businesses have R at the forefront of their innovation that R coding isn't scary!
- how easy it is to start using R
- how automating reports will save them and their business time and money
- new and innovative ways to show their data via dashboards on R
- how to run R for the entire business via cloud servers