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The Data Preparation Journey: Finding Your Way with R book cover

1st Edition

The Data Preparation Journey Finding Your Way with R

By Martin Hugh Monkman Copyright 2024
236 Pages 13 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

236 Pages 13 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall

236 Pages 13 Color & 26 B/W Illustrations
by Chapman & Hall
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The Data Preparation Journey: Finding Your Way With R introduces the principles of data preparation within in a systematic approach that follows a typical data science or statistical workflow. With that context, readers will work through practical solutions to resolving problems in data using the statistical and data science programming language R. These solutions include examples of complex... Read more

1. Introduction

2. Foundations

3. Data documentation

4. Importing data

5. Importing data: plain-text files

6. Importing data: Excel

7. Importing data: statistical software

8. Importing data: PDF files

9. Data from web sources

10. Linking to relational databases

11. Exploration and validation strategies

12. Cleaning techniques

13. Recap

Biography

Martin Monkman is a Senior Manager at MNP, and a Course Instructor at the University of Victoria Continuing Studies’ Business Intelligence and Data Analytics program. Prior to joining MNP, Martin had a long career at BC Stats, the provincial statistics agency in British Columbia, Canada, including a decade with the job title “Provincial Statistician”. Martin has Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Geography from the University of Victoria, and he has been a member of the Statistical Society of Canada since 2022.

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