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Basic Data Tidying

Sarah Dutkiewicz tidies up a data set in R:

Looking at this data, the first thing I thought was untidy. There has to be a better way. When I think of tidy data, I think of the tidyr package, which is used to help make data tidy, easier to work with. Specifically, I thought of the spread() function, where I could break things up. Once data was spread into appropriate columns, I figure I can operate on the data a bit better.

Sarah has also made the data set available in case you’re interested in following along.