The goal of the first part of this book is to get you up to speed with
the basic tools of data exploration as quickly as possible. Data
exploration is the art of looking at your data, rapidly generating
hypotheses, quickly testing them, then repeating again and again and
again. The goal of data exploration is to generate many promising leads
that you can later explore in more depth.
In this part of the book you will learn some useful tools that have an
immediate payoff:
Visualization is a great place to start with R programming, because
the payoff is so clear: you get to make elegant and informative plots
that help you understand data. In Chapter 1 you’ll dive into
visualization, learning the basic structure of a ggplot2 plot, and
powerful techniques for turning data into plots.
Visualization alone is typically not enough, so in Chapter 3 you’ll learn the key verbs that allow you to select
important variables, filter out key observations, create new variables,
and compute summaries.
Finally, in Chapter 5, you’ll combine visualization
and transformation with your curiosity and skepticism to ask and answer
interesting questions about data.
Modeling is an important part of the exploratory process, but you don’t
have the skills to effectively learn or apply it yet. We’ll come back to
it in Part IV, once you’re better equipped with more data wrangling and ...
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