Data acquisition from excel

Course Description

This course is intended to introduce students to modern programs and technologies that are useful for organizing, manipulating, analyzing, and visualizing data. We start with an overview of the R language, which will become the foundation for your work in this class. Then we’ll move on to other useful tools, including working with regular expressions, basic UNIX tools, XML, and SQL.

Course Objectives

Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

· Explain how businesses can gain competitive advantage through data visualization.

· Understand why visualization is an important part of data analysis

· Understand the components involved in visualization design

· Develop skills in designing and creating data visual static and dynamic products

Books and Resources

Required Text(s):

Kirk, Andy (2019). Data Visualisation. London: Sage Publication Ltd.

ISBN-13 9781526468932