This is website for the short course “Cleaning Up the Data Cleaning Process: Challenges and Solutions in R” to be held at the 2018 American Statistical Association Conference on Statistical Practice.

The course will be taught be Anne Helby Petersen and Claus Thorn Ekstrøm from the section of Biostatistics, University of Copenhagen.

Anne Helby Petersen holds a MS in statistics and is the primary author of the dataMaid R package. She is experienced in communicating statistical topics to a wide audience as a teaching assistant at the University of Copenhagen, teaching statistics to students from bio-sciences, life-sciences, computer science and mathematics.

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm is the creator and contributor to a number of R packages (dataMaid, MESS, MethComp, SuperRanker) and is the author of “The R Primer” book. He has previously given a useR tutorial on Dynamic and interactive graphics in R and the role of interactive graphics in teaching, and won the C. Oswald George prize for his article “Teaching ‘Instant Experience’ with Graphical Model Validation Techniques” in 2014.