An Introduction to Data Analytics and Programming in R

Date posted: 18 March 2026

As part of the Analytics Exchange Series, this two-hour workshop is primarily targeted for students/professionals, who are already familiar with Excel, and wish to acquire the essential skills of data analysis and programming in R to increase their productivity at research/work. Through easy-to-follow hands-on activities, participants will be exposed to the various commonly-used operations in data analytics that can be performed much more efficiently in R than in Excel, which includes organization, classification and extraction of data. In addition, participants will also be learning the basics of programming in R, which proves to be an indispensable tool at automating many computational tasks at hand.

Facilitator: Dr. Ganeshsree Selvachandran and Dr. Quek Shio Gai, School of Business
Date & Time: 26 March (Thursday), 2.00 PM – 4.00 PM
Location: Library Training Room, 7103

For more details, please refer to the poster and register using the link, or simply scan the QR code on the posters.