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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
Languages
Authors (2):
Radhika Datar Radhika Datar
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Harish Garg 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

Cleaning and tidying up the data

Data cleaning, or rather tidying up the data, is the process of transforming the raw data into a specific form of consistent data that includes a simpler form of analysis. Cleaning the attributes of the bank dataset is considered quite critical and should be performed carefully. The R workspace includes a set of comprehensive tools that are specifically designed to clean the data in an effective manner. The following steps are implemented to this end:

  1. Initial explanatory analysis
  2. Data visualization
  3. Error cleaning

Here, we will focus on various aspects of understanding the data summary and also getting a feel for the data. We will also implement the libraries required to clean and tidy up the data by observing the following steps:

  1. Include the requisite libraries (as discussed in Chapter 3, Examining, Cleaning, and Filtering) that assist in cleaning...
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