Getting to know the Iowa data

This exercise should feel familiar: introducing yourself to the dataset by acquainting yourself with its basic structure. Questions that you should be thinking about include: What do the rows refer to? What about the columns? What type of data to they contain? How does this compare to the iran data?

After you've familiarized yourself with the iowa data, determine which of the following statements is FALSE.

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There are 1386 observations on 5 variables.

The columns contain the name of the office, the candidate, the party, the county, and the votes cast, all of which are categorical data.

Each row refers to candidate pair (President/Vice President) in a single county.

There appear to be 14 distinct categories in the candidate column.

Exercise

Getting to know the Iowa data

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