stanislawswierc / mrs-student-materials

Course materials for the MRS class delivered by Slalom.

Microsoft R Server

Welcome to the Slalom Microsoft R Server Course Repository. While this course is intended for data scientists and analysts interested in the Microsoft R programming stack (i.e., Microsoft employees in the Algorithms and Data Science group), other programmers might find the material useful as well.

Course Outline

Please refer to the course syllabus for the full syllabus. The goal of this course is to cover the following modules, although some of the latter modules may be repalced for a hackathon/office hours.

• Topics:
  • R Fundamentals
  • Data Manipulation with dplyr
  • Data Manipulation with dplyrXdf
  • Modeling and Scoring with Microsoft R
  • Parallel Computing with the RevoScaleR package
  • HDInsights Insights

DSVMs

We will use iPython notebooks (via Jupyter) on DSVMs Data Science Virtual Machines from the Azure marketplace to run the course materials. We will be providing only a brief overview of HDInsights (Hadoop & Spark); we expect to offer this material in a different course. If you are interested in running course materials locally, see the course wiki for instructions.

RStudio

RStudio it the most popular R IDE is installed on the VMs as well as R Studio Server (web client). We will be using iPython notebooks to deliver the course however, all course material are provided in R markdown files as well.

Credentials

• We will send you credentials to log into the training environment by email.