Data Manipulation with the tidyverse
Content for Monday, September 8, 2025
We’ve established some of the reasons why data reproducibility and transparency are important. We’ve even gotten to the point where you can bring data into R from a variety of sources. Now we’ve actually got to start wrangling it into the sorts of things we can use for analysis. For a variety of reasons, this course relies on the tidyverse family of packages and its extensions into the spatial realm. Today, we’ll talk about why and begin to develop some intuition for building an analysis using the functions contained in the tidyverse family of packages.
Readings
Objectives
By the end of today you should be able to:
Explain the importance of readable code.
Articulate the structure of readable scripts
Utilize the verb, object, helper syntax of the
tidyverseto modify your data in a reproducible way
Slides
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