Data transformation

Overview

• Identify computer programming as a form of problem solving
• Practice decomposing an analytical goal into a set of discrete, computational tasks
• Identify the verbs for a language of data manipulation
• Clarify confusing aspects of data transformation from R for Data Science
• Practice transforming data

Before class

• Read Chapters 5-6 from R for Data Science

Class materials

• Computer programming as a form of problem solving
• dplyr in brief
• Practice transforming college education (data)

Additional resources

• Data Wrangling with dplyr and tidyr Cheat Sheet

What you need to do after class

• Complete your peer evaluations for homework 01. Review the following:
  • General Homework Rubric
  • Performing peer review
  • To find which peers you will evaluate:
    • Navigate to the course organization page on GitHub
    • Find the hw01 repos you can see that are not your own repo
    • Open the repos and find the pull request. You can then initiate a code review to leave detailed feedback.