Chapter 4 Data Preparation

Intro TBA: Data cleaning, wrangling, engineering

4.1 dplyr

  • Motivations
  • dplyr
  • Variable types (what operations are meaningful)

4.1.1 Check Understanding

TBA

4.2 Isolating Data

  • select
  • filter
  • arrange
  • distinct
  • the pipe operator

4.2.1 Check Understanding

TBA

4.3 Deriving and summarizing data

  • mutate
  • summarize
  • group_by
  • tally/count
  • rename/recode

4.3.1 Check Understanding

TBA

4.4 Factors!

  • Working with factors
  • Saving/restoring R objects

4.4.1 Check Understanding

TBA

4.5 Supplemental Material

  • joining
  • reshaping