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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda
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Hands-On Data Science with Anaconda

by Yuxing Yan, James Yan
May 2018
Beginner to intermediate
364 pages
7h 43m
English
Packt Publishing
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Introduction to the dslabs R package

The dslabs R package is short for Data Science Labs. The package includes several datasets, such as the dataset called murders for US gun murders by state for 2010:

> library(dslabs) 
> data(murders) 
> head(murders) 
       state abb region population total 
1    Alabama  AL  South    4779736   135 
2     Alaska  AK   West     710231    19 
3    Arizona  AZ   West    6392017   232 
4   Arkansas  AR  South    2915918    93 
5 California  CA   West   37253956  1257 
6   Colorado  CO   West    5029196    65 

The following table shows the datasets included in the package:

Name of dataset
Description

admissions

Gender bias among graduate school admissions to UC Berkeley

divorce_margarine

Divorce rate and margarine consumption data

ds_theme_set

dslabs theme set ...

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ISBN: 9781788831192