Introduction to R for BI

Code and Data Repository for Introduction to R for Business Intelligence

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Welcome to Business Intelligence Using R.

Explore the world of business intelligence through the eyes of an analyst working in a successful and growing startup company. Learn R through use cases supporting different functions within that company. This book provides data-driven and analytically focused approaches to help you answer business questions in operations, marketing, and finance.

What You Will Learn

You can find the R code and data for individual chapters using the links below.

  1. How to extract, transform, and load a raw dataset
  2. A structured approach to the art of cleaning data
  3. Exploratory data analysis techniques to understand the data
  4. Predicting results with linear regression modeling
  5. Cluster analysis to find groups hidden within the data
  6. Time series analysis of financial information
  7. Secrets of visualizing the data's story
  8. Interactive web dashboards with Shiny
If you really want to learn the code and techniques, go ahead and only download the datasets. Then follow along with the book to create your own R code to solve business problems.

Who is this book for?

This book is for business analysts who want to increase their skills in R and learn analytic approaches to business problems. Data science professionals who are more familiar with R will also benefit from this book as they apply their skills to business problems and learn the language of business.

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