Week 4 - Importing and recoding data

Importing and recoding data 📉

Last updated on 23 Oct 2020

Tasks

Watch the videos
Complete the readings
Complete the assignments

Videos

You have two options for watching the course videos, on YouTube or on MediaHopper. You can also find a playlists for all course videos on YouTube here and on MediaHopper here.

No.	Title	Length
01	Keeping up with IDS: Week 4	19:58
02	Data types	30:29
03	Data classes	19:28
04	Importing data	32:08
05	Recoding data	20:22
06	AE: Hotels + Data types	17:00
07	AE: Nobels + Sales + Data import	19:28

Assignments

Assignment	Title	Due
Due this week
Lab 02	Take a sad plot and make it better	Tue, 13 Oct, 16:00 UK
HW 01	All about Edinburgh	Thur, 15 Oct, 16:00 UK
OQ 03	Data wrangling and visualisation	Sun, 18 Oct, 23:59 UK
Due next week
Lab 03	Nobel laureates	Tue, 20 Oct, 16:00 UK

If you’re having difficulty accessing your HW or Lab repo, see troubleshooting advice here.

Readings


📖	R4DS::Chp 11 - Data import	Required
📖	R4DS::Chp 15 - Factors	Required
📖	R4DS::Chp 16.1 - 16.3 - Dates and times	Required

Code-along

You can find starter code for this session on RStudio Cloud, in the project titled Code Along 04 - R Markdown tips + asking questions.


Recording
Session artifacts	`.Rmd` `.md`

Interactive R tutorials

The following are interactive R tutorials, designed to give you more practice with R. These are optional, but they will show up in your next homework assignment, so you should gain familiarity with it. If you’re struggling with any of the topics covered this week, we strongly recommend you work through the interactive tutorials.


What should I major in?	Related to HW 02