Chapter 1 Presentation

Welcome to the WIS R course!

This book will be a companion text for the course ‘Principles and practice of large scale data analysis using R’ taught at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Lecturers
Emmanuel Levy
Schraga Schwartz
Igor Ulitzky

Teaching Assistants
Miguel García
Yaara Finkel
Hugo Schweke

Former TAs
Benjamin Dubreuil

Contributing to the book

Students are encouraged to contribute to the book giving feedback and proposing changes through the use of the disqus comments section at the bottom of each chapter, and through git pull requests by forking the book’s GitHub Repository.

Note:Even if you are experienced with git and programming, consider writing us some lines in the comments section before investing a lof of time in the whole process of forking, editing, and pull requesting. Let’s talk!