About this course: R Programming Capstone
Created by: Johns Hopkins University
Taught by: Roger D. Peng, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics
Bloomberg School of Public Health
Taught by: Brooke Anderson, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences
Colorado State University
| Basic Info | Course 5 of 5 in the Mastering Software Development in R Specialization |
| Level | Intermediate |
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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Syllabus
WEEK 1
Obtain and Clean the Data
The overall goal of the capstone project is to integrate the skills you have developed over the courses in this Specialization and to build a software package that can be used to work with the NOAA Significant Earthquakes dataset.
1 video, 2 readings
- Video: Welcome to the Capstone Project
- Reading: Introduction
- Reading: Module 1: Obtain and Clean the Data
WEEK 2
Building Geoms
Show us when earthquakes occurred in different countries, their magnitude, and their toll on human life.
1 reading
- Reading: Module 2: Visualization Tools
WEEK 3
Building a Leaflet Map
Show and annotate the earthquake epicenters.
1 reading
- Reading: Module 3: Mapping Tools
WEEK 4
Documentation and Packaging
Documentation is one of the most important and most commonly overlooked steps when writing software, but you're not going to let that happen in your project.
2 readings
- Reading: Documentation and Packaging Tasks
- Reading: Testing
Graded: Documentation, Packaging, and Testing
WEEK 5
Deployment
The moment of truth. It's time to push your package to GitHub.
1 reading
- Reading: GitHub and Travis
WEEK 6
Final Assessment
It's time to submit your deployed package for evaluation and to evaluate the work of a few of your classmates.
Graded: Package Evaluation
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