Week 4
Introduction
This week the course will turn to skills that are often not covered much in a statistics course, working with data to create new variables, arrange data, select columns, or filter data. These will make use of the dplyr package from the tidyverse to explore verbs to manipulate data.
Objectives
After completing this module, students will be able to:
- Explore benefits of script based analyses
- Create new data attributes
- Evaluate dplyr code for data manipulation
Activities
- R for Data Science - chapters 5 – 6
Weekly Videos
- Data Munging Introduction
- Arranging Data
- Selecting Columns of Data
- Add Variables to Data
- Summarise Data
- Chaining Commands Together
- R Scripts
R Syntax
Assignments
- Assignment 1 - Due around February 13th