Data and visual analytics is an emerging field concerned with analyzing, modeling, and visualizing complex high dimensional data. This course will introduce students to the field by covering state­-of-­the-art modeling, analysis and visualization techniques. It will emphasize practical challenges involving complex real world data and include several case studies and hands-on work with the R programming language.Why Take This Course?You should take this course if you want to cover the state of the art in data modeling and visualization techniques using the R programming language.