Helpful resources

You will do all of your work in this class with the open source (and free!) programming language R. You will use RStudio as the main program to access R. Think of R as an engine and RStudio as a car dashboard—R handles all the calculations and the actual statistics, while RStudio provides a nice interface for running R code.

R style conventions R is fairly forgiving about how you type code (unlike other languages like Python, where miscounting spaces can ruin your code!). All of these things will do exactly the same thing:

There are a ton of places to find data related to business online. Here are some examples: Kaggle: Kaggle hosts machine learning competitions. A byproduct of these competitions is a host of fascinating datasets that are generally free and open to the public.