1  Summary

This book is designed for the short course titled Data Programming with R, offered in the University of Texas at Dallas. It provides training for aspiring data scientists to program surrounding data using R. The primary goal is to build a comprehensive program preparing students in four major elements in Data Science:

1. Data collection

2. Data visualization

3. Data management

4. Data modeling

The major platform is R with the IDE (Integrated Development Environment) is Rstudio. However, the principles and applications can be used for other languages and platforms such as Python and Julia.