R Advanced One Week Workshop ending on 21 November 2020
Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching
| Course Content | Teaching Faculty | Who Should Attend |
| Duration and Venue | Criteria for Certification | Course Fee |
| How to Apply | Accommodation | Note |
| Address For Communication | ||
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Introduction
R (http://www.r-project.org/) is a Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) - a well organized and sophisticated package - that facilitates data analysis, modeling, inferential testing, and forecasting. It is a user-friendly software that allows creating new function commands to solve statistical problems. It runs on a variety of UNIX platforms (and similar systems such as LINUX), Windows and Mac OS X.
R is one of the most preferred open-source languages for analytics and data science. The cross-platform compatibility of R and its capacity to handle large and complex data sets makes it an ideal tool for academicians to analyze data in their labs.
R can be used for simple calculations, matrix calculations, differential equations, optimization, statistical analysis, plotting graphs, etc. Also, it is useful for anybody who wishes to undertake extensive statistical computations and data visualization.
R allows you to develop custom Artificial Intelligence Apps to deploy within your own organization. It has numerous packages that are used in the field of ML.
The FOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project at IIT Bombay (https://fossee.in) has been promoting Synfig Studio, and other FLOSS, such as Scilab, Python, OpenFOAM, eSim, Osdag, OpenModelica, R, Drupal and Linux, and open source hardware, such as Arduino and OpenPLC. The FOSSEE Project is funded by NMEICT, Ministry of Education, Govt. of India.
Methodology of the Workshop
Interested participants have to register online and pay the registration fee. The registration form will be available until 13 November 2020. The registered participants will receive an email with an R programming assignment, the description of assignment is given here. This assignment should be completed using R/ RStudio. Participants will have to complete the assigned R task within 6 days of receiving the email. Those who are not familiar with R/ R Studio can refer to the spoken tutorials available here: Search Tutorials | spoken-tutorial.org, to learn the basics of R Programming language.
The submitted task will then be reviewed by the R expert team. If the submitted task is approved, the participants will be allowed to attend the “R Advanced” workshop. If the submitted task is not approved, registration of the participant will be automatically transferred to the “R Beginner” workshop. No separate fee will be charged for the participants who are moved from the R Advanced to the R Beginner workshop. The decision of the FOSSEE team about the approval/rejection of the task is final. No request for refund of fee will be entertained, in case any participant doesn’t qualify to attend the R Advanced workshop. Final list of participants who are selected for the R Advanced workshop will be announced on 20 November 2020.
The “R Advanced” workshop will involve practising advanced topics related to machine learning using R, supported by live online lectures, demonstrations, and problem solving.
Course content
There will be two parts to this workshop:
- Self-learning of R through Spoken Tutorials, completing the screening task, and getting qualified.
- Attending an interaction session, during which, the following activities will be completed. Learning following concepts of machine learning using study material in R.
- Linear Discriminant Analysis
- Decision Tree
- Hierarchical Clustering
- K Means Clustering
- Random Forest
The above will be supported by live sessions, demonstrations, and problem solving.
One has to successfully complete both of the above activities to be eligible for the Certificate.
Teaching Faculty
- Prof. Kannan M Moudgalya, Department of Chemical Engineering, IIT Bombay
- Prof. Radhendushka Srivastava, Department of Mathematics, IIT Bombay
- FOSSEE and Spoken Tutorial Teams, IIT Bombay
Who Should Attend
This R Advanced workshop will be useful to students, faculty, and working professionals from the Engineering, Science, Social Science and allied fields who have a working knowledge of R/ RStudio and are already well aware of the R Spoken Tutorials available under the basic level.
Please note that the participation in the R Advanced workshop is subject to the approval/disapproval of the submitted task as mentioned under the “Methodology of the Workshop” section.
Duration and Venue
The interaction session of the R Advanced workshop will be conducted online on Saturday, 21 November 2020 from 9.30 A.M to 5.30 P.M
Criteria for Certification
Participation certificates, in an electronic form, will be provided to all participants after successful completion of the workshop.
Participants who attend the workshop will be given an option to act as a TA (Teaching Assistant) for the R-Beginner workshop to be conducted on 28 November 2020. All such participants will be given a TA certificate. Details about the responsibilities of a Teaching Assistant will be informed later.
How to Apply
The application will be strictly online, and no other mode of application will be entertained.
The link for online registration is :
http://www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict/workshopContent.html?workshopid=zDEbCbywHBg5OPLFMDAadg&category=UubpVTjA3FS-DQx8uW4rlA
The registration form will be available until 13 November, 2020. The registered participants will receive an email consisting of one of the task assignments listed here. These assignments should be completed using R/Rstudio. Participants will have to complete the assigned task within 6 days of receiving the email. If one is not familiar withR/Rstudio, one can refer to the spoken tutorials available here: Search Tutorials | spoken-tutorial.org, to learn the basics of R.
The submitted task will then be reviewed by the R expert team. If the submitted task is approved, the participants will be allowed to attend the “R Advanced” workshop. If the submitted task is not approved, registration of the participant will be automatically transferred to the “R Beginner” workshop. No separate fee will be charged for the participants who are moved from the R Advanced to the R Beginner workshop. The decision of the FOSSEE team about the approval/rejection of the task is final. No request for refund of fee will be entertained, in case any participant doesn’t qualify to attend the R Advanced workshop. Final list of participants who are selected for the R Advanced workshop will be announced on 20 November 2020.
Accommodation
Not applicable
Note
- As the workshop is conducted online, it is mandatory to have a desktop/ laptop with mouse and a working Internet connection with good bandwidth. The laptop should have sufficient resources to run the software R/Rstudio.
- The task assignments to be done using R/Rstudio will be assigned by us.
- The submitted task will be reviewed by the R team, FOSSEE, IIT Bombay.
- The decision of approval/rejection of task assignment by the FOSSEE team will be final.
Technical Requirements:
- It is mandatory to have the R version 3.4.4 or higher and RStudio version 1.1.463 or higher installed in the system to attend the workshop. The installation sheet is available here.
- Following operating systems can be used for installing R/RStudio:
Contact Us
- Any queries related to assigned tasks can be asked through FOSSEE Forums. Alternatively, you can write to us at contact-r@fossee.in
- Any queries related to spoken tutorials on R can be asked through Spoken Tutorial Forums.
- Any other general queries about the workshop can be sent to eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in.
Address For Communication
Mahendra Parmar,
Sr. Project Manager, ESOS Project
Department of CSE, Kanwal Rekhi Building,
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai - 400 076.
Email: eoutreach@it.iitb.ac.in
Website - www.it.iitb.ac.in/nmeict
