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Published inFeb 2023
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Gustavo R Santos
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Gustavo R Santos

Gustavo R Santos has worked in the Technology Industry for 13 years, improving processes, and analyzing datasets and creating dashboards. Since 2020, he has been working as a Data Scientist in the retail industry, wrangling, analyzing, visualizing and modeling data with the most modern tools like R, Python and Databricks. Gustavo also gives lectures from time to time at an online school about Data Science concepts. He has a background in Marketing, is certified as Data Scientist by the Data Science Academy Brazil and pursues his specialist MBA in Data Science at the University of São Paulo
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Tibbles versus Data Frames

A tibble is a modern data frame. With the evolution of the R language, some features that used to work well for data frames are not very useful now, so Hadley Wickham – the creator of Tidy Data and tidyverse – created a new data type that better fitted his way of working with datasets and dropped the old features, while adding other fancy ones, to create this new data type named Tibble.

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they do less (i.e. they don’t change variable names or types, and don’t do partial matching) and complain more (e.g. when a variable does not exist). This forces you to confront problems earlier, typically leading to cleaner, more expressive code. (https://tinyurl.com/43un2f3z)

The main differences between Tibbles and data frames are as follows:

  • They don’t change input variable types, such as strings to factors, by default.
  • They can have lists as columns.
  • They can have non-standard...
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Gustavo R Santos

Gustavo R Santos has worked in the Technology Industry for 13 years, improving processes, and analyzing datasets and creating dashboards. Since 2020, he has been working as a Data Scientist in the retail industry, wrangling, analyzing, visualizing and modeling data with the most modern tools like R, Python and Databricks. Gustavo also gives lectures from time to time at an online school about Data Science concepts. He has a background in Marketing, is certified as Data Scientist by the Data Science Academy Brazil and pursues his specialist MBA in Data Science at the University of São Paulo
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