Workshop: Data Cleaning in R
Description
Prerequisite: Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners or some experience using R
Do you work with other people's data? Are there times when you need to clean or reorganize this data to work for you? This workshop, by Johns Hopkins Data Management Services, will provide tools to efficiently clean data in R.
Attendees will need to have either some basic knowledge about using R or have previously attended the Introduction to R for Absolute Beginners workshop in order to take this one.
This workshop will give an overview of the concepts of data cleaning and go into great detail with tidyr package. The instructor will walk attendees through the basic data cleaning steps with tidyr package for the first part of this workshop. Then attendees will apply these skills to clean a dataset downloaded from Kaggle at the second part of this workshop. Attendees will have plenty of opportunities to do hands-on activities on attendees' laptops and work on datasets provided by instructors.
Other upcoming Data Management Services workshops about working with R include:
Who can attend?
- Faculty
- Staff
- Students
