Week 8

Developing an exploratory data analysis with {sf} and the {tidyverse}

Overview

How do you understand a dataset? Descriptive statistics, tables, and interactive tools can be helpful in a preliminary analysis for any dataset.

Prepare

Required readings

• Ch. 11 Exploratory Data Analysis in Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund, and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data, 2nd edition. (Sebastopol, CA: O’Reilly Media, 2023), https://r4ds.hadley.nz/.
• Natalia Mazotte “Working Openly in Data Journalism,” in The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards A Critical Data Practice, ed. Liliana Bounegru and Jonathan Gray, 2nd ed. (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), 138–142, doi:10.2307/j.ctv1qr6smr.

Optional readings

• Ch. 12 Communication in Wickham, Grolemund, and Çetinkaya-Rundel R for Data Science.