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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

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Product type Book

Published in May 2019

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781789804379

Pages 266 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Authors (2):

Radhika Datar

Harish Garg

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Table of Contents (17) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: Setting Up Data Analysis Environment

2. Setting Up Our Data Analysis Environment

3. Importing Diverse Datasets

4. Examining, Cleaning, and Filtering

5. Visualizing Data Graphically with ggplot2

6. Creating Aesthetically Pleasing Reports with knitr and R Markdown

7. Section 2: Univariate, Time Series, and Multivariate Data

8. Univariate and Control Datasets

9. Time Series Datasets

10. Multivariate Datasets

11. Section 3: Multifactor, Optimization, and Regression Data Problems

12. Multi-Factor Datasets

13. Handling Optimization and Regression Data Problems

14. Section 4: Conclusions

15. Next Steps

16. Other Books You May Enjoy

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The data analysis workflow

The main sections of the data analysis workflow are outlined in the following subheadings.

Data import

Before getting started with data analysis, it is important that you have knowledge about the data. The best part is that you can import datasets in R in any format, such as Excel, CSV, or text files. The toughest part is that importing the dataset of a different type necessitates a different approach.

Manipulating data

Manipulating data with R is considered a vast topic, as it includes various sections and packages with proper implementation...

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Authors (2)

Radhika Datar

Radhika Datar has more than 5 years' experience in software development and content writing. She is well versed in frameworks such as Python, PHP, and Java, and regularly provides training on them. She has been working with Educba and Eduonix as a training consultant since June 2016, while also working as a freelance academic writer in data science and data analytics. She obtained her master's degree from the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research and her bachelor's degree from K. J. Somaiya College of Science and Commerce.

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Harish Garg

Harish Garg is a Principal Software Developer, author, and co-founder of a software development and training company, Bignumworks. Harish has more than 19 years of experience in a wide variety of technologies, including blockchain, data science and enterprise software. During this time, he has worked for companies such as McAfee, Intel, etc.

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