Introduction to R for Health Surveillance Webinar
Description: In this 26 minute video, Eric Bakota offers an overview of a free statistical package, R, and an overview of commonly used tips and tricks shared in the surveillance community for analysis work in R.
Objectives:
- Overview of R and R Studio
- Introduction to the ‘Tidyverse’ concept (system of packages for data manipulation, exploration and visualization)
- Overview of dplyr (a package which provides a set of tools for efficiently manipulating datasets in R)
- Explanation of the ISDS R Group for BioSurveillance and an invitation to join
Presenter: Eric Bakota, MS, Analyst, Harris County (Texas) Public Health Department