Homework 4
Skills challenges
Navigate to GitHub Classroom. This will create a Github repository for you. Clone this repository to your local machine using Github Desktop (click Set up in Desktop). Set the Local Path to your homework folder in your class folder.
There are two tasks and thus they are separated into two files. You are expected to completed both tasks.
- Data Wrangling Open
HW4_Part1.qmd. This will involve doing wrangling exercises for data on flights and the general social survey (practice with numeric, logical, dates, and factors). - Data Wrangling for Cleaning. Open
HW4_Part2.qmd. This will involve working with a large dataset, creating new variables that will require wrangling skills with strings and regular expressions.
Project Work
Project Milestone 1: See information on our Project page.
Concepts to Know
- Vector data types in R
- Vector recycling
- Date-time formats
- Factors in R
Optional
If you are aiming for an A in the course, recall from our syllabus that participating in 3 Tidy Tuesday challenges can move you toward this goal. You’ve already created 1 for HW1. These are great to include in your digital portfolio.
- I encourage you to participate in the most recent Tidy Tuesday challenge.
- To turn in your work, share an image of a visual that you are proud of in the #sharing-is-caring channel on Slack and a link to the Github repository created for your Tidy Tuesday work.