6Functions
As you begin to take on data science projects, you will find that the tasks you perform will involve multiple different instructions (lines of code). Moreover, you will often want to be able to repeat these tasks (both within and across projects). For example, there are many steps involved in computing summary statistics for some data, and you may want to repeat this analysis for different variables in a data set or perform the same type of analysis across two different data sets. Planning out and writing your code will be notably easier if can you group together the lines of code associated with each overarching task into a single step.
Functions represent a way for you to add a label to a group of instructions. Thinking about the ...
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