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  3. Categorical Data in the Tidyverse
  • 1

    Introduction to Factor Variables

    Gratuito

    In this chapter, you’ll learn all about factors. You’ll discover the difference between categorical and ordinal variables, how R represents them, and how to inspect them to find the number and names of the levels. Finally, you’ll find how forcats, a tidyverse package, can improve your plots by letting you quickly reorder variables by their frequency.

  • 2

    Manipulating Factor Variables

    You’ll continue to dive into the forcats package, learning how to change the order and names of levels and even collapse them into one another.

  • 3

    Creating Factor Variables

    Having gotten a good grasp of forcats, you’ll expand out to the rest of the tidyverse, learning and reviewing functions from dplyr, tidyr, and stringr. You’ll refine graphs with ggplot2 by changing axes to percentage scales, editing the layout of the text, and more.

  • 4

    Case Study on Flight Etiquette

    In this final chapter, you’ll take all that you’ve learned and apply it in a case study. You’ll learn more about working with strings and summarizing data, then replicate a publication quality 538 plot.

Initializing

Exercicio

Changing characters to factors

While we'd sometimes like to dive straight into data visualization and modeling, we usually need to do some data tidying first. This chapter will walk you through the steps needed to recreate a FiveThirtyEight graphic from the original dataset, flying_etiquette. We'll start by limiting our dataset to only the respondents we're interested in and making some of our columns factors.

In the code, you'll see that we've put backticks around the column name. This is what you need to do if there are spaces in your column names! Normally, we change those to underscores so we don't have to do this, but in this case, we've kept it since we'll soon be graphing them.

Instruções

100 XP
  • Change all character columns into factor columns.
  • Remove people who responded "Never" to a question asking if they have flown before.