The Internet is full of interesting data, there’s no doubt about it. Some sites, such as Twitter, provide users with systemized access (API) around which some neat R packages have been built. In this exercise set, we practice much more general techniques of extracting/scraping data from the web directly, using the rvest package. Note […]
Data Wrangling
Text Data Wrangling: Exercises
In a previous exercise set, we practiced retrieving data from Twitter. In this exercise, we start getting comfortable with manipulating text data. We will start by refreshing our memory on how to use some base-R functions, then we start using the tm package. Answers to the exercises are available here. Exercise 1 Use readLines to […]
Data wrangling : Cleansing – Date
Data wrangling is the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process that is estimated to take about 60-80% of analysts’ time. In this series, we will go through this process. It will be a brief series with the goal of crafting the reader’s skills […]
Data wrangling : Cleansing – Regular expressions (3/3)
Data wrangling is the process of importing, cleaning, and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process that is estimated to take about 60-80% of analysts’ time. In this series, we will go through this process. It will be a brief series with the goal of crafting the reader’s skills […]
Data wrangling : Cleansing – Regular expressions (2/3)
Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be a brief series with goal to craft the reader’s skills on […]
Data wrangling : Cleansing – Regular expressions (1/3)
Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be a brief series with goal to craft the reader’s skills on […]
Data wrangling : Transforming (3/3)
Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be […]
Data wrangling : Transforming (2/3)
Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be […]
Data wrangling : Transforming (1/3)
Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be […]
Data wrangling : Reshaping
Data wrangling is a task of great importance in data analysis. Data wrangling, is the process of importing, cleaning and transforming raw data into actionable information for analysis. It is a time-consuming process which is estimated to take about 60-80% of analyst’s time. In this series we will go through this process. It will be […]
