Clean and tidy data: The tidyverse (part 1)

Authors

Joseph A. Stanley, Brigham Young UniversityFollow

Keywords

reshape, melt, cast, data visualization, tidyverse

Abstract

Working with data can be super frustrating. I’ve been there. In fact, this tweet from a little over a year ago, only hints at the frustration I was feeling at the time.

In any given project, I think I spend more time trying to figure out how to reshape, melt, and cast my data than anything else.

Here, I make reference to specific functions (reshape, melt and cast) and I’m pretty sure I had spent 6–8 hours working on transforming my data to work in some visualization. I don’t even think I ended up getting it done in the end, and I found a really clunky, alternative solution.

BYU ScholarsArchive Citation

Stanley, Joseph A., "Clean and tidy data: The tidyverse (part 1)" (2018). Faculty Publications. 6095.
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/facpub/6095

Document Type

Other

Publication Date

2018

Permanent URL

http://hdl.lib.byu.edu/1877/8824

Language

English

College

Humanities

Department

Linguistics

University Standing at Time of Publication

Assistant Professor

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