Mastering Software Development in R Capstone

About this course: R Programming Capstone

Created by:  Johns Hopkins University

• Taught by:  Roger D. Peng, PhD, Associate Professor, Biostatistics

  Bloomberg School of Public Health

• Taught by:  Brooke Anderson, Assistant Professor, Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences

  Colorado State University

Basic Info Course 5 of 5 in the Mastering Software Development in R Specialization Level Intermediate Language English How To Pass Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. User Ratings 4.4 stars Average User Rating 4.4See what learners said Coursework

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Syllabus


WEEK 1


Obtain and Clean the Data
The overall goal of the capstone project is to integrate the skills you have developed over the courses in this Specialization and to build a software package that can be used to work with the NOAA Significant Earthquakes dataset.


1 video, 2 readings expand

1. Video: Welcome to the Capstone Project
2. Reading: Introduction
3. Reading: Module 1: Obtain and Clean the Data

WEEK 2


Building Geoms
Show us when earthquakes occurred in different countries, their magnitude, and their toll on human life.


1 reading expand

1. Reading: Module 2: Visualization Tools

WEEK 3


Building a Leaflet Map
Show and annotate the earthquake epicenters.


1 reading expand

1. Reading: Module 3: Mapping Tools

WEEK 4


Documentation and Packaging
Documentation is one of the most important and most commonly overlooked steps when writing software, but you're not going to let that happen in your project.


2 readings expand

1. Reading: Documentation and Packaging Tasks
2. Reading: Testing

Graded: Documentation, Packaging, and Testing

WEEK 5


Deployment
The moment of truth. It's time to push your package to GitHub.


1 reading expand

1. Reading: GitHub and Travis

WEEK 6


Final Assessment
It's time to submit your deployed package for evaluation and to evaluate the work of a few of your classmates.

Graded: Package Evaluation