Chapter 2. Tidying, manipulating, and plotting data with the tidyverse
This chapter covers
- Understanding the tidyverse
- What is meant by tidy data
- Installing and loading the tidyverse
- Using the tibble, dplyr, ggplot2, tidyr, and purrr packages
I’m really excited to start teaching machine learning to you. But before we dive into that, I want to teach you some skills that are going to make your learning experience simpler and more effective. These skills will also improve your general data science and R programming skills.
Imagine that I asked you to build me a car (a typical request between friends). You could go old-fashioned: you could purchase the metal, glass, and other components; hand-cut all the pieces; hammer them into shape; and rivet ...
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