Course
R ist eine weit verbreitete Programmiersprache für Datenanalyse und -visualisierung, Statistik, Forschung und Wirtschaft. In diesem Kurs werden die Grundlagen der Programmierung mit R vermittelt. Zentral steht dabei die praktische Anwendbarkeit des Erlernten.
Teilnehmer:innen können nach dem Kurs Datensätze einlesen, verarbeiten und visualisieren. Die Inhalte entsprechen dem Paradigma guter fachlicher Praxis für eine nachvollziehbare Arbeitsweise. Damit sind sie verwendbar für transparente Forschung und reproduzierbare Workflows.
Offered by Berry Boessenkool, Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich, Pia Francesca Rissom | Last updated on Oct 28, 2026 | 8911 enrollments
Berry Boessenkool
Berry Boessenkool has been teaching R courses in various formats since 2012. He is a freelance R trainer and consultant and works part-time as a lecturer at HPI. His passion for programming was sparked in his studies of geoecology and the analysis of environmental data is still close to his heart.
Prof. Dr. Bert Arnrich
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Bert Arnrich is Professor for Digital Health – Connected Healthcare at the Digital Health Center of the Hasso Plattner Institute.
His research on ubiquitous sensing and computing technologies is directed towards paving the way for transforming healthcare systems from purely managing illness to maintaining wellness everywhere, anytime and for anyone. He has been a PI in several European and national projects. He has co-authored over 120 refereed research publications.
He studied "Informatics in the Natural Sciences" and received the PhD degree Dr.-Ing. for the thesis "Data Mart Based Research in Heart Surgery" from Bielefeld University in 2006. He established and headed the research group Pervasive Healthcare in the Wearable Computing Laboratory at ETH Zurich between 2006 and 2013. He received an EU FP7 Marie Curie Cofound Fellowship in 2013 and was appointed to tenure track professorship at the Computer Engineering Department at Bosporus University until 2017. Between 2017 and 2018 he worked as a Science Manager for Emerging Technologies at Accenture Technology Solutions.
Pia Francesca Rissom
After accomplishing her bachelor's degree in Medicine in Scotland, Pia Francesca Rissom is now a Digital Health master student at the HPI. She has a strong interest in the analysis and visualisation of health care related data and is working in this field for the RKI.