Preface
An Introduction to Computing and Data for Scientists
Preface
1
Introduction
Basic Topics
2
Setup
3
Introduction to R
4
Literate Programming
5
Visualizing Data
6
Wrangling Data
7
Graphs with
ggplot
8
Exploratory Data Analysis and Scientific Discovery
9
More about R
10
Modeling
11
Inference
Advanced Topics
12
Reproducibility
13
Loading Data
14
More Graphs
15
More Statistics
16
More Models
17
Simulation
18
Prediction
19
Deep Learning
Scientific Data
20
Online Data
21
Databases
Outputs
22
Papers
23
Presentations
24
Dashboards
References
Appendices
A
Frequently Asked Questions
B
Additional Software Set-up
Table of contents
Preface
An Introduction to Computing and Data for Scientists
With R
Author
Dominic White
Published
May 21, 2026
Preface
1
Introduction