Saturday & Sunday, March 4, 2017; Ann Arbor SPARK, 330 E. Liberty Street, Ann Arbor, MI. The Ann Arbor R User Group is excited to host a free two-day beginner R workshop sponsored by SPARK. R is an open-source programming software, used widely in both industry and academia, for data processing, analysis, and visualization. This workshop is geared towards the novice R user, and requires no prior programming experience. The workshop will be fully interactive, and will cover basic programming concepts in R as well as applied modules on statistical analysis and data visualization. By the end of the workshop, participants will feel confident at importing, manipulating, and plotting a dataset using dplyr and ggplot2, some of R’s most popular packages. More info and registration.