Africa R Users community meetup: Exploratory Data Analysis with R
Channel: Africa R Users
Date: 2023-02-27

Topic: String manipulation using forstringr package
opic:  Exploratory Data Analysis with R
The beauty of the R programming language cannot be overemphasised.  It has grown so well in many areas of academics and in industry. This presentation will cover experiences of R;  how it became a part of the BSc. Statistics curriculum at the University of Ibadan and is now becoming the lingua franca of the Nigerian statistical community. The main  focus will be on how to use R to study data and discover problems in it, allowing data to speak for itself, using data obtained from the Oyo State Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Ibadan.

Speaker: Olalekan Obisesan
Olalekan Obisesan, an experienced lecturer, is a Statistician that has been trained at both the University of Ibadan (UI) and the University College London (UCL). He is a foremost statistical consultant who has published widely in Environmetrics and Biometrics research in Nigeria and Africa. He has been involved in the use of the R language since 2010 after his training at UCL. He has also been involved in using R to train various employees of a number of organisations including NMC, IBS, I.I.T.A, N.S.A,  AIMS South Africa and various Departments of Universities across Nigeria and Africa. He is one of the major organisers of the  R User Group (UI R User Group) at the University of Ibadan and serves as resource person to many other R user groups in Nigeria and outside Nigeria. He co-authored a book on Statistical Computing with R in 2021. He was an academic staff of the Department of Statistics University of Ibadan until recently when he was appointed Professor of Statistics by the First Technical University Ibadan.

About Africa R User meetups
The Africa R User meetup is a platform to showcase the R work done in Africa. Each meetup will feature a code walk through followed by a discussion to encourage networking and community building. African R Users meetup gives Africans a platform to share what they have learned in their never ending learning journey, share experiences and help each other learn and grow.

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