Managing reliable water services requires not only a sufficient volume of water but also significant amounts of data. Water professionals measure the flow and quality of the water and how customers perceive their service.

This course presented by Peter Prevos teaches the basics of data science using the R language to analyse water management problems. The skills learned in this course are fully transferable to other data science languages such as Python or Julia.

Learning Objectives

The main objective of this course is to teach water professionals how to write data science code to solve urban water management problems. The learning objectives are:

Apply the principles of strategic data science to solve water problems
Understand the principles of writing sound code
Write R code to load, transform, analyse, and visualise data
Develop presentations, reports, and applications to share results

Program

The course consists of water-related case studies to provide a practice-based learning experience, following the complete data science value chain.

FEBRUARY 2022

Level	Online	Topic
Level 1	Session 1: Thursday 3rd February	Introduction to data science and the R language
	Session 2: Tuesday 8th February	Analyse water quality data
Level 2	Session 1: Thursday 17th February	Collecting and cleaning customer data
	Session 2: Thursday 24th February	Analysing customer data

MARCH 2022

Level	Online	Topic
Level 1	Session 1: Thursday 3rd March	Introduction to data science and the R language
	Session 2: Thursday 10th March	Analyse water quality data
Level 2	Session 1: Thursday 17th March	Collecting and cleaning customer data
	Session 2: Thursday 24th March	Analysing customer data

Prerequisites

Participants do not need to have any experience with writing computer code. However, some experience with analysing data is preferable.

Participants will need to install the R and RStudio software on their PC or use the cloud version.

Please note there is a maximum of 12 places available for each Level.

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