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Manipulating Dataframes in R

by Chase DeHan

People coming from spreadsheets are blown away with how easy and powerful it is to manipulate tabular data with R. In this course, you will learn the fundamental building blocks of how to work with the R data frame.

What you'll learn

Data preparation is one of the most difficult and time-consuming tasks for data professionals. In this course, Manipulating Dataframes in R, you will learn foundational knowledge of the R dataframe. First, you will explore the basics of the data frame. Next, you will discover how to access certain fields in your data. Finally, you will learn how to do these same tasks with the powerful dplyr package. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of data manipulation in R needed to succeed at getting your data into the proper form for analysis.

About the author

Chase is currently Lead Data Scientist at Tesorio and formerly was an Assistant Professor of Finance and Economics at the University of South Carolina Upstate. He holds a BS, MS, and PhD, all in Economics, from the University of Utah. Prior to graduate school, Chase served two combat tours to Iraq with the US Marine Corps and competed in the 2010 Winter Olympic Trials in Bobsled. Chase is passionate about building automated machine learning systems and is a regular speaker at academic and pra... more

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