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Introduction to Data Science with R and Tidyverse

4 Importing and recoding data

You will usually import and recode your data at the beginning of your data science process. You need a solid understanding of data types, classes, and ways to import data into R to do that.

4.1 Slides, application exercises, and references

Unit 2 - Deck 10: Data types

Slides

Unit 2 - Deck 12: Importing data

Slides

R4DS :: Chp 11 - Data import

Nobels + Sales + Data import

Please open your Posit Cloud for this exercise.

Source

Solution, .Rmd file

4.1.1 Additional material not covered in class

We will not cover this unit due to time constraints. Study the slides and the application exercise if you’re interested in data classes.

Unit 2 - Deck 11: Data classes

Slides

R4DS :: Chp 15 - Factors

Hotels + Data types

Please open your Posit Cloud for this exercise.

Source

Source