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Data Wrangling in R 

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Overview

Duration

3 hours

Total fee

899

Mode of learning

Online

Difficulty level

Intermediate

Credential

Certificate

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Skills you will learn
More about this course
  • In this course, learn about the principles of tidy data, discover how to create and manipulate data tibbles, and find out how to use the tibbles in importing, transforming, and cleaning your data
  • Instructor Mike Chapple uses R and the tidyverse packages to teach the concept of data wrangling—the data cleaning and data transformation tasks that consume a substantial portion of analysts' time
  • He wraps up with three hands-on case studies that reinforce the data wrangling principles and tactics covered in this course

Data Wrangling in R
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Curriculum

Introduction

Preparing for data wrangling

What you need to know

Exercise files

Tidy Data

What is tidy data?

Variables, observations, and values

Common data problems

Using the tidyverse

Working with Tibbles

Building and printing tibbles

Subsetting tibbles

Filtering tibbles

Importing Data into R

What are CSV files?

Importing CSV files into R

What are TSV files?

Importing TSV files into R

Importing delimited files into R

Importing fixed-width files into R

Importing Excel files into R

Reading data from databases and the web

Data Transformation

Wide vs. long datasets

Making wide datasets long with pivot_longer()

Making long datasets wide with pivot_wider()

Converting data types in R

Working with dates and times in R

Data Cleaning

Detecting outliers

Missing and special values in R

Breaking apart columns with separate()

Combining columns with unite()

Manipulating strings in R with stringr

Data Wrangling Case Study: Coal Consumption

Understanding the coal dataset

Reading in the coal dataset

Converting the coal dataset from wide to long

Segmenting the coal dataset

Visualizing the coal dataset

Data Wrangling Case Study: Water Quality

Understanding the water quality dataset

Reading in the water quality dataset

Filtering the water quality dataset

Water quality data types

Correcting data entry errors

Identifying and removing outliers

Converting temperature from Fahrenheit to Celsius

Widening the water quality dataset

Data Wrangling Case Study: Social Security Disability

Understanding the social security disability dataset

Importing the social security disability dataset

Making the social security disability dataset long

Formatting dates in the social security disability dataset

Fiscal years in the social security disability dataset

Widening the social security disability dataset

Visualizing the social security disability dataset

Conclusion

Next steps

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Faculty details

Mike Chapple, Teaching Professor at the University of Notre Dame; Cybersecurity Author, Trainer and Certification Expert

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