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 Last Updated: 3rd March 2025
 
-## Description
+## Repository Description
 This repository contains the exercise materials for the course. It includes datasets and notebook files designed to help you practice importing, analyzing, and editing data.
 
+### Course Description
+In this course, you will learn about R, which is a programming language that is commonly used for statistical analysis and data visualisation. We will be looking at:
+- How to import datasets
+- Getting an overview of a dataset using R commands
+- Reordering data
+- Dealing with incomplete case(s)
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+By the end of this course, you will be able to import datasets in various formats, use commands to understand your data better, and edit datasets to handle incorrect ordering or incomplete entries.
+
 ## Requirements
 Ensure that you have access to the Learn course page [Introduction to R](https://www.learn.ed.ac.uk/ultra/courses/_114976_1/outline).