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Course Detail

Course Name Foundation of Data Science with R Programming
Course Code 26DLS505
Program M. Sc. in Data Science with Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Semester 1
Credits 4
Campus Coimbatore

Syllabus

Unit 1

Overview of R software, Introduction to R Studio: R command Prompt, R script file, Handling Packages in R: Installing a R Package, Basic commands to get started and Special functions , Data Types, Vectors, Lists, Matrices, Arrays, Factors, String functions , Data Frame , Loading and handling Data in R, Writing into a CSV File and Reading from Excel file. (24 Hrs)

Unit 2

Descriptive Statistics: Data Range, Frequencies, Mode, Mean and Median, variance, Standard Deviation, Data Visualization Using R- Pie Charts, R Histograms Density Plot , Bar Charts, Line Chart, Scatterplot, Box Plot, drawing line, circle, rectangle and triangle .Classification and Tabulation of Data , Diagrammatic and Graphic representation of data, Measure of central tendency or averages, Measure of dispersion, Skewness and Kurtosis. (18 Hrs)

Unit 3

Statistical Analysis Using R : Standard discrete distributions – Binomial, Poisson, Uniform, Geometric distributions, Standard continuous distributions – Uniform, Exponential and Normal distributions, Correlation and Regression . Case studies related logistic and supply chain management. (18 Hrs)

Text Books / References

Text books / Reference Books

  1. Norman Matloff : The Art of R Programming, Norman Matloff, Cengage Learning: Efficient R Programming: A tool of statistical software design , First edition, No Starch Press, 2011.
  2. Jared P. Lander , : R for Everyone: Advanced Analytics and Graphics, Second Edition, Pearson Education
  3. Hadley Wickham and Garrett Gorlemund : R for Data Science, First edition, O’Reilly
  4. Winston Chang : R Graphics Cookbook: Practical Recipes for Visualizing Data,  Second Edition , Shroff/O’Reilly
  5. Nina Zumel and John Mount : Practical Data Science with R,  Dream tech  Press/Manning Publications.

Objectives and Outcomes

Course Outcomes
CO1 Understand different data structures including factors, lists, data frames, and matrices. Also develop skills in importing, managing, and handling datasets from multiple data sources
. CO2 Apply exploratory data analysis on real time datasets and implement data visualization techniques for creating meaningful and informative graphs using R.
CO3 To foster the ability to tackle real-world data problems and derive actionable insights using R based on statistical analysis.

CO-PO Mapping

  PO1 PO2 PO3 PO4 PO5 PO6 PO7 PO8 PO9 PO10 PO11 PO12
CO1 3 3 3 2 2 2         1 1
CO2 3 3 3 2 3 2         1 1
CO3 3 3 3 2 2 2         1 1
CO4 3 2 2 1 2 1         1 1

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