Analyzing open data sources with R

Materials for the workshop "Analysing open data sources with R" at the Visualizing Open Access Summer School, Monday, 13 September 2021, 09:30 - 12:00

Before the workshop starts

You will probably benefit most from this workshop if you install R and the integrated development environment RStudio on a computer you have administrator rights on. Both are free and easy to install. Here is what you need:

• download and install the latest version of R (here)
• download and install the latest version of RStudio (RStudio Desktop, Open Source Edition: here)

Goals

get to know some open data sources for Open Access

• learn how to use open data sources
• learn about the importance of persistent identifiers

get to know some R basics

• learn how to prepare and analyse data
• learn how to visualize data

The structure of this repository

• demo contains R scripts and Jupyter Notebooks for the workshop
• data contains all the data you need during the workshop
• after the workshop is over, I will add solution: Notebooks outlining all the steps in detail