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Ted Laderas

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Bioinformatics Developer and Assistant Professor at OHSU. Collaborative Informaticist and R/Data Science evangelist. Plays well with others.

Jessica Minnier

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Biostatistician, Assistant Professor, OHSU

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

Self-directed bootcamp for learning the basics of data manipulation with the tidyverse. We start with visualization a...

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1
The Magic of ggplot2

Learn how ggplot2 turns variables into statistical graphics
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2
ggplot2 and categorical data

More on plotting using ggplot2
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3
Introduction to dplyr

Learn how to manipulate data into a ggplot2 friendly format
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4
The Whys and Hows of Tidy Data

Why we need tidy data and using `tidyr` to make messy data tidy
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5
Simple Stats and Modeling with broom

Now we have tidy data, let's start doing some statistics!
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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

What you learned in this chapter

ggplot2 and categorical data

Review of factors

A Basic Barplot using `geom_bar()`

Stacked Bars

Quick Quiz

Proportional Barchart

Dodge those bars!

Faceting a graph

Super Quick Review

Your Task: Bar Charts

Boxplots

Try out geom_boxplot() yourself

Violin Plots

Your task: How heavy are our pets?

What you learned in this chapter

Introduction to dplyr

Introduction to dplyr

A Little Bit about assignment

Let's look at some data and ways to manipulate it.

dplyr::filter()

Comparison operators and chaining comparisons

Quick Quiz about Chaining Comparisons

The %in% operator

Removing Missing Values

dplyr::mutate()

You can use mutated variables right away!

Another Use for `mutate()`

The difference between `filter()` and `mutate()`

The Pipe Operator: %>%

group_by()/summarize()

Counting Stuff

arrange()

select()

Chester Ismay's Mantra

Putting it all together: Challenge 1

Challenge 2: Show your stuff

Challenge 3: Putting together what we know about ggplot2 and dplyr

What you learned in this chapter

The Whys and Hows of Tidy Data

What you'll learn in this Chapter:

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?

What you learned in this Chapter

Simple Stats and Modeling with broom

We've built a foundation. Now to stats!

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