I picked “Data Visualization in R” for my Datacamp makeup assignment. I chose this course because I plan to become a computer scientist, and because I hope enough about data science to become a data scientist. The first half of the course (I finished 3/5ths of the course) covered the making of many different types of graphs with provided datasets, and how to label and customize these graphs with many different customization parameters like “pch”, which determines the shape of icons used to mark data points. I think the course turned out to be a good starting point for me regarding the study of data science and the use of R to handle data. I got more comfortable with reading R documentation and with the programming syntax. I hope to apply the things I’ve learned in this course to my future studies!

(Joel Colon)