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Data Wrangling with R
Data Wrangling with R

Data Wrangling with R: Load, explore, transform and visualize data for modeling with tidyverse libraries

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Data Wrangling with R

Fundamentals of Data Wrangling

The relationship between humans and data is age old. Knowing that our brains can capture and store only a limited amount of information, we had to create ways to keep and organize data.

The first idea of keeping and storing data goes back to 19000 BC (as stated in https://www.thinkautomation.com/histories/the-history-of-data/) when a bone stick is believed to have been used to count things and keep information engraved on it, serving as a tally stick. Since then, words, writing, numbers, and many other forms of data collection have been developed and evolved.

In 1663, John Graunt performed one of the first recognized data analyses, studying births and deaths by gender in the city of London, England.

In 1928, Fritz Pfleumer received the patent for magnetic tapes, a solution to store sound that enabled other researchers to create many of the storage technologies that are still used, such as hard disk drives.

Fast forward to the modern world, at the beginning of the computer age, in the 1970s, when IBM researchers Raymond Boyce and Donald Chamberlin created the Structured Query Language (SQL) for getting access to and modifying data held in databases. The language is still used, and, as a matter of fact, many data-wrangling concepts come from it. Concepts such as SELECT, WHERE, GROUP BY, and JOIN are heavily present in any work you want to perform with datasets. Therefore, a little knowledge of those basic commands might help you throughout this book, although it is not mandatory.

In this chapter, we will cover the following main topics:

  • What is data wrangling?
  • Why data wrangling?
  • The key steps of data wrangling
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Key benefits

  • Explore state-of-the-art libraries for data wrangling in R and learn to prepare your data for analysis
  • Find out how to work with different data types such as strings, numbers, date, and time
  • Build your first model and visualize data with ease through advanced plot types and with ggplot2

Description

In this information era, where large volumes of data are being generated every day, companies want to get a better grip on it to perform more efficiently than before. This is where skillful data analysts and data scientists come into play, wrangling and exploring data to generate valuable business insights. In order to do that, you’ll need plenty of tools that enable you to extract the most useful knowledge from data. Data Wrangling with R will help you to gain a deep understanding of ways to wrangle and prepare datasets for exploration, analysis, and modeling. This data book enables you to get your data ready for more optimized analyses, develop your first data model, and perform effective data visualization. The book begins by teaching you how to load and explore datasets. Then, you’ll get to grips with the modern concepts and tools of data wrangling. As data wrangling and visualization are intrinsically connected, you’ll go over best practices to plot data and extract insights from it. The chapters are designed in a way to help you learn all about modeling, as you will go through the construction of a data science project from end to end, and become familiar with the built-in RStudio, including an application built with Shiny dashboards. By the end of this book, you’ll have learned how to create your first data model and build an application with Shiny in R.

Who is this book for?

If you are a professional data analyst, data scientist, or beginner who wants to learn more about data wrangling, this book is for you. Familiarity with the basic concepts of R programming or any other object-oriented programming language will help you to grasp the concepts taught in this book. Data analysts looking to improve their data manipulation and visualization skills will also benefit immensely from this book.

What you will learn

  • Discover how to load datasets and explore data in R
  • Work with different types of variables in datasets
  • Create basic and advanced visualizations
  • Find out how to build your first data model
  • Create graphics using ggplot2 in a step-by-step way in Microsoft Power BI
  • Get familiarized with building an application in R with Shiny

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Table of Contents

20 Chapters
Part 1: Load and Explore Data Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Data Wrangling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 2: Loading and Exploring Datasets Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 3: Basic Data Visualization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 2: Data Wrangling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 4: Working with Strings Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 5: Working with Numbers Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 6: Working with Date and Time Objects Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 7: Transformations with Base R Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 8: Transformations with Tidyverse Libraries Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 9: Exploratory Data Analysis Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 3: Data Visualization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 10: Introduction to ggplot2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 11: Enhanced Visualizations with ggplot2 Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 12: Other Data Visualization Options Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Part 4: Modeling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 13: Building a Model with R Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Chapter 14: Build an Application with Shiny in R Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Conclusion Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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Daksh Mar 21, 2023
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"Data Wrangling with R: Load, explore, transform and visualize data for modeling with tidyverse libraries" is an excellent guidebook for those interested in learning R programming language for data science purposes. The book provides a detailed overview of how to efficiently work with data in R by leveraging the tidyverse libraries.Part one of the book provides an introduction to the R programming language and its features. The author covers data structures, functions, and programming concepts that are essential for data analysis in R. He also explains how to use RStudio, the most popular integrated development environment for R.In part two, he delves into data loading and cleaning. He explains how to import data from different sources such as CSV, Excel, and databases. The author also provides numerous examples of how to clean and transform data using tidyverse libraries such as dplyr and tidyr.Part three of the book covers data exploration and visualization. The author demonstrates how to use ggplot2 to create various data visualizations such as scatterplots, histograms, and boxplots. He also shows how to use other visualization libraries like plotly and leaflet.Finally, in part four, the author covers modeling and machine learning using R. He explains how to use the caret package for model training and evaluation. He also covers topics like regression, classification, clustering, and time series analysis.Overall, "Data Wrangling with R: Load, explore, transform and visualize data for modeling with tidyverse libraries" is a must-read for anyone interested in learning R programming language for data analysis. The author's writing style is clear and concise, making it easy for readers to understand the concepts and follow along with the examples. The book is well-organized, and the examples are practical and relevant to real-world data science problems. I highly recommend this book to anyone looking to upskill in data wrangling with R.
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Sunil K. Gupta Mar 10, 2023
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I have the honor to review Data Wrangling with R by Gustavo Santos! Being new to R, I was afraid this book was going to be too technical and only on statistical modeling. On the contrary, I was happy to find this R book easy to read, understand and apply whether you are new or an intermediate R programmer. The logical flow between chapters and sections with useful summaries and tips showcase Gustavo's in-depth knowledge and expertise in R. I really like how Gustavo compares similar R methods which help to reinforce R syntax understanding. Gustavo's approach will be liked by Data Scientists since all traditional methods of data cleaning, structure and operations before statistical modeling are followed. The graph gallery makes it easy to look up the correct R graph code without writing R code from scratch. I highly recommend Data Wrangling with R book to establish a strong foundation of R learning!
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T. Zwingmann Apr 16, 2023
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Ich hatte kürzlich die Gelegenheit, ein kostenfreies Exemplar diese Buches zu lesen. "Data Wrangling with R" ist eine tolle Ressource für jeden, der sich mit Data Wrangling befasst, vor allem, wenn man mit R anfängt. Die Stärken des Buches liegen in der Verwendung von tidyverse, das die Arbeitsabläufe für Data Wrangling im Vergleich zu Base-R vereinfacht und es für Anfänger viel zugänglicher macht. Ich selbst würde immer anfangen mit Tidyverse zu lernen.Die Struktur des Buches ist hervorragend und führt den Leser vom Einlesen von Daten unterschiedlicher Quellen, über Data Cleaning und Data Preparation bis hin zur Erstellung interaktiver Anwendungen mit Shiny. Das Buch liefert einen klaren Fahrplan und bildet eine solide Grundlage für weiteres Lernen. Mir hat besonders der Schreibstil des Autors gefallen. Er ist leicht zu lesen und verständlich, mit zahlreichen Beispielen.Zusammenfassend kann ich das Buch jedem empfehlen, der seine Fähigkeiten im Umgang mit Daten in R erlernen oder verbessern möchte!
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Jim Heidinger Mar 22, 2023
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As I spend a lot of time working with R in my work, I was interested in the main premise about data wrangling and especially using visualizations and statistics to start the process of analysis. I was very much interested in the areas where R native packages could accomplish these tasks and the author gave a pretty deep walk through of techniques that spanned creating datasets to parsing strings, working with numbers and classes to data transformations.I found quite a few areas where I would come back to the book as a reference and study guide for problems I often face. The author had a very logical approach to coding and documenting that can serve as a model for a more coherent approach to problem solving.My favorite areas were also addressed with date conversions, parsing, data tables and visualizations. He pretty much covered it all in a very straight forward and comprehensive manner building on each prerequisite step in coming to a deeper understanding of data. This was quite useful for modeling and learning about data transformation concepts as it all starts with the structure of the data in order to move forward.The final two chapters showed the strength of taking R further with model building and shiny apps. While just a taste of what can be accomplished the author gave plenty of references to material to refer to for further study.All in all, I enjoyed the book immensely. Not only was it a deep reference to the basics in data transformation and wrangling, but it gave plenty of useful examples of ways to accomplish my work by providing what I thought were innovative approaches to solving problems.
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bskkarthik Feb 25, 2023
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The book is very good and it covered different libraries like tidyverse. The good part of book is it also covers on Shiny which is popular library for creating web app. The author did a good job in writing this book.I highly recommend this book to start on R.
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