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Course Description

Self-directed bootcamp for learning the basics of data manipulation with the tidyverse. We start with visualization and ask fun questions of the data.

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1

The Magic of ggplot2

Quick Data Frame Introduction

Thinking about aesthetics

Mapping variables to produce geometric plots

More about aes

Points versus lines

Geoms are layers on a ggplot

Quick review about ggplot2

Final Challenge: Recreate this Gapminder Plot

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ggplot2 and categorical data

Review of factors

A Basic Barplot using `geom_bar()`

Stacked Bars

Proportional Barchart

Dodge those bars!

Faceting a graph

Super Quick Review

Your Task: Bar Charts

Try out geom_boxplot() yourself

Violin Plots

Your task: How heavy are our pets?

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Introduction to dplyr

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The Whys and Hows of Tidy Data

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What is Tidy Data?

tidyr::gather()

tidyr::spread()

dplyr::separate()

Wide Versus Long Data

Putting dplyr, tidyr, and ggplot2 all together

Was there a difference?

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Simple Stats and Modeling with broom

We've built a foundation. Now to stats!

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Let's explore the fishermen mercury dataset

Visualize Mean of Total Mercury by Fisherman Status

Compute Means with group_by

Is there a difference?

T-test of means for fisherman status

Sweep up that output with Broom

Let's delve deeper into the data

Linear Regression

Broom with linear regression

Broom with linear regression: glance

Compare our models

Prediction of mercury

Challenge 1: augment + ggplot2

Challenge 2: Proportions of fishpart by fisherman status

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