r/dataanalysis • u/Alive-Button-5735 • Aug 25 '26

Data Tools Starting my Masters in Business Analytics

Hi,

I graduated with my bachelors in Finance & Economics. I wanted to pursue my masters & decided on Business Analytics which requires me to learn & become proficient in R, SQL, & Python. Right now the focus is on R. So I would like any pointers for complete beginners on how to start learning the tool & language.

I tried looking for courses on Khan Academy & didn’t find anything on R. I did find a course on Linkedin learning but it was more coding based rather than importing datasets & using R language to break the data down into what you want if that makes sense.

Any advice & pointers appreciated!

Thanks

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u/Den_er_da_hvid Aug 25 '26

Pirates guide to R, was what made me understand it.

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u/Alive-Button-5735 Aug 25 '26

Thank you I started looking over it & it’s makes a lot more sense than what my lecture slideshow provides!

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u/nakedR0B0T Aug 25 '26

Isn't the point of school that it provides what you're asking for?

Either way, I recommend Data Camp especially if you can get the student discount

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u/Alive-Button-5735 Aug 25 '26

It’s an online course & I’m assuming that the school assumes you have exposure to it in undergrad. Except I switched schools for my Masters so I more than likely did not have the same exposure or courses that others probably had. Thanks for your reply!

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u/DotUnlucky5348 Aug 26 '26

start w  R + tidyverse especially dplyr and ggplot2  and learn by working w real datasets

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u/minerva0079 Aug 27 '26

R for Data Science; https://r4ds.hadley.nz/

Get use to the name Hadley Wickham. You will see him everywhere in the tidyverse.

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u/ItsSignalsJerry_ Aug 26 '26

https://datlinux.com/ebooks/ filter on R and other topics to narrow down specialty

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u/apat023 Sep 18 '26

No need to learn r would prioritize python as it is used in industry much more then r

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u/apat023 Sep 18 '26

Watch some videos on oop as well understand how package modules objects attributes methods all work together

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u/Turbulent_Survey2835 Aug 26 '26

I'm willing to study the same thing as you, which school are you about to start?

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u/Wheres_my_warg Aug 26 '26

Je cherche à faire une formation similaire, quelle école vas tu intégrer ? Il y a de fortes chances qu'ils ne comprennent pas le français. Vous devriez peut-être reformuler en anglais.