Week 5: Data Manipulation

Assignment: The General Social Survey (Due Week 6)

Author

Prof. Jack Reilly

Published

Fall 2026

Due This Week: Problem Set 5

Lecture: Structural Data Manipulation

💾 Slides on the Course Drive

Workshops

  • After lecture, and before you start this week’s assignment: work through the fifth self-paced workshop, which gives the smallest working example of every verb from lecture — filter(), select(), bind_rows(), the joins, group_by() and summarise(), srvyr weights, and the pivots.

Readings & Reference Material

Due Next Week: Problem Set 6