Week 3 Info: Working with Tidy Data
Week 3 has now begun. You have now had some basic practice using some key tidyverse packages, in particular dplyr for manipulating data and ggplot2 for making visualizations. So far in this class we have intentionally worked with nice data sets which were in a form ready to analyze using the tidyverse tools. In this week we will discuss what the tidy in tidyverse means and how a concept called tidy data underlies the design philosophy of the entire group of software packages in the tidyverse. Along the way we will learn tools for importing data and tidying it so that it can be analyzed easily with tidyverse tools.
You will have a lab assignment titled Tidy Data due next Sunday at midnight.
For your reading assignments and more details about this week, head over to Module 3. If you need help with with anything, don’t hesitate to post in slack or contact me directly.