Week 4: Data, A Field Guide

Assignment: Data in the Tidyverse (Covered Week 5; Optional)

Due This Week: Problem Set 4

Lecture: A Field Guide to Data

Readings & Reference Material

• DMSS, ch 3 & 4
• RDS, chs 7 & 8
• FCSP, ch 5.4-5.6
• Tidyverse cheatsheets: https://rstudio.github.io/cheatsheets/, especially:
  • data tidying with tidyr: html and pdf
  • data transformation with dplyr: html and pdf
  • data import with readr: html and pdf
  • data visualization with ggplot2: html and pdf

Computer Work

In case you have not yet done so, install the tidyverse series of packages in your local R installation.

Due Next Week: Problem Set 5