Enhance and Advance

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Instructor: Eric Dunford

• Associate Director, MS in Data Science for Public Policy ; Assistant Teaching Professor
• Email: ed769@georgetown.edu
• Webinar Materials: http://ericdunford.com/enhance_and_advance_R/

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Introduction to Python

Originally offered end-July 2020.

Introduction to Data Management in Python

Colab Notebooks

• Part 1 - Data in Python using pandas

• Part 2 - Manipulating data in Python using pandas

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Introduction to R

The following are materials for the second week of “Introduction to R” instruction. Webminar offered mid-June 2020.

Data Wrangling with the Tidyverse

Table of contents for slides

• What is data wrangling?
• Tidy data
• Manipulating data with dplyr
• Piping data
• Joining data
• Reshaping data using tidyr

Application

• Wrangling Conflict Event Data
  • Download notebook.

Data Visualization with the Tidyverse

Table of contents for slides

• The basic components of Data Visualization
• Grammar of Graphics

Application

• Let’s walk through the following practice together to explore the relationship between economic development and life expectancy using the gapminder dataset. I’ve provided an answer key for future reference.

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