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Helsinki Open Data Science

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Updated 02/2026

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Course Description

This DataCamp course has been developed for the use of University of Helsinki by Tuomo Nieminen and Emma Kämäräinen, under the supervision of adj. prof. Kimmo Vehkalahti. The corresponding HY course is titled Introduction to Open Data Science (IODS). The core themes of the course are open data, reproduciple research and data science.

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Prerequisites

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1

Regression and model validation

Data wrangling, simple regression, multiple regression, regression diagnostics

Reading data from the web

Scaling variables

Combining variables

Selecting columns

Modifying column names

Excluding observations

Visualizations with ggplot2

Exploring a data frame

Simple regression

Video: Linear regression

Multiple regression

Graphical model validation

Video: Model validation

Making predictions

2

Logistic regression

Regression for binary outcomes, training and testing a (predictive) model, cross-validation

More datasets

Joining 2 datasets

The if-else structure

So many plots

The pipe: summarising by group

Box plots by groups

Video: Logistic regression

Learning a logistic regression model

Video: Odds ratios

From coefficients to odds ratios

Binary predictions (1)

Binary predictions (2)

Accuracy and loss functions

Video: Cross-validation

Cross-validation

3

Clustering and classification

Datasets in R, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and K-means clustering

Datasets inside R

Correlations plot

Scale the whole dataset

Creating a factor variable

Divide and conquer: train and test sets

Video: Linear Discriminant Analysis

Linear Discriminant analysis

Predict LDA

Video: Distance measures and clustering

Towards clustering: distance measures

K-means clustering

K-means: determine the k

4

Dimensionality reduction techniques

Principal component analysis (PCA), Correspondence analysis (CA)

Meet the human data

String manipulation

Dealing with not available (NA) values

Excluding observations

Exploring the countries

Video: Dimensionality reduction with PCA

Video: Biplots

A biplot of PCA

Video: Multiple Correspondence Analysis

It's tea time!

Multiple Correspondence Analysis

5

Analysis of longitudinal data

Graphical Displays and Summary Measure Approach, Linear Mixed Effects Models for Normal Response Variables

Meet and Repeat: PART I

Graphical displays of longitudinal data: The magical gather()

Individuals on the plot

The Golden Standardise

Good things come in Summary graphs

Find the outlaw... Outlier!

T for test and A for Anova

Meet and Repeat: PART II

Linear Mixed Effects Models: Gather 'round

Plot first, ask questions later

Holding on to independence: The Linear model

The Random Intercept Model

Slippery slopes: Random Intercept and Random Slope Model

Time to interact: Random Intercept and Random Slope Model with interaction

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