Course overview
Data is all around us, but often in forms that are messy, incomplete, or difficult to interpret. This course develops foundational skills in data wrangling and analysis, focusing on transforming real-world data into tidy, structured formats suitable for exploration and predictive modelling. Students will learn to work with diverse data types and formats, apply data transformation techniques, and build and evaluate statistical and machine learning models. The course builds both technical proficiency and critical thinking to support data-informed decision making.
- Introduction to Taming Messy Data in R
- Transformation and Continuous Predictive Modelling
- Classification and Discrete Predictive Modelling
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the principles of data taming and approaches used to tidy data
- Compare and critically evaluate the performance of predictive models using appropriate validation techniques and model metrics.
- Select from data analysis and visualisation techniques to create a predictive model and make predictions from it
- Execute techniques to transform, reduce and summarise data in order to visualise it
- Communicate professionally on the application of predictive models through the use of real-world case studies
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Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 31378
Section PR02
Size 25
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Class number 31379
Section PR01
Size 25
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Class number 31377
Section FR01
Size 50
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Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 26183
Section PR05
Size 30
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Class number 26184
Section PR04
Size 30
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Class number 26185
Section PR03
Size 30
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Class number 26186
Section PR02
Size 30
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Class number 26187
Section PR01
Size 30
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Class number 26182
Section FR01
Size 150
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Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 61185
Section FR01
Size 300
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Class number 61186
Section PR09
Size 30
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Class number 61187
Section PR08
Size 30
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Class number 61188
Section PR07
Size 30
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Class number 61189
Section PR06
Size 30
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Class number 61190
Section PR05
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Class number 61191
Section PR04
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Class number 61192
Section PR03
Size 30
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Class number 61193
Section PR02
Size 30
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Class number 61194
Section PR01
Size 30
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Class number 61195
Section PR10
Size 30
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Mawson Lakes
Group 1
Class number 66211
Section FR01
Size 50
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Class number 66212
Section PR02
Size 25
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Class number 66213
Section PR01
Size 25
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Adelaide City Campus East
Group 1
Class number 24086
Section FR01
Size 55
Available 55
Class number 24087
Section PR02
Size 25
Available 25
Class number 24088
Section PR01
Size 25
Available 25
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