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Creating tidy data

Creating tidy data

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Creating tidy data

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- [Instructor] One of the most important principals to learn about working in R is the concept of tidy data. Now I know it sounds like a silly term but tidy data means data that is well-structured in a way that makes it very easy to import into programs and get started doing analysis almost immediately with very little doctrine of the data required. The turned tidy data comes from the prominent R Developer, Hadley Wickham. Who first wrote a paper about this and I'm going to show you both some of the definitions of tidy data and how it can work in various circumstances. To do this I'm going to come down and I going to load a few packages including the tidy verse, one called tsibble, which is a time series tsibble. Lubridate for tidying up dates and XML for getting XML data from the web. So I'm going to load those. But let's come down and take a look at the essentials of tidy data which I have listed right here. It's…

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