Getting and Cleaning Data

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Taught by
Jeff Leek, PhD
Associate Professor, Biostatistics
and 2 more instructors

Offered by
Johns Hopkins University

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r/rstats • comment
1 points • mCmurphyX

The Johns Hopkins University R courses on Coursera by Roger Peng, Jeff Leek, and Brian Caffo are fantastic and mostly in base R

  • R Programming https://www.coursera.org/learn/r-programming
  • Advanced R Programming https://www.coursera.org/learn/advanced-r
  • Getting & Cleaning Data https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-cleaning
  • Exploratory Data Analysis https://www.coursera.org/learn/exploratory-data-analysis

Winston Chang's Cookbook for R: http://www.cookbook-r.com/

An Introduction to Data Cleaning with R free ebook by Edwin de Jonge & Mark van der Loo https://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/de_Jonge+van_der_Loo-Introduction_to_data_cleaning_with_R.pdf

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r/datascience • comment
1 points • HailSeitan999

Because DataCamp is known for welcoming sexual harrassy behavior and their CEO seems like a child, here are some alternative recs about cleaning and the other stuff that makes up 95% of data jobs:

here's what to look for, every time: https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1182288624018247685

here's a coursera course on it: https://www.coursera.org/learn/data-cleaning

here's how SQL works: https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1184571894722449409

here's how tidyverse works, including various read/write libraries + opinions on data types + code reusability that are generally applicable: http://r4ds.had.co.nz/

hopefully a helpful (+ free) set of alternatives!

I'd also say hard choices around interpolation vs exclusion seem hard to find material on, probably because so data/resource/context specific, but also good to be aware of.

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