Wrangling Rows and Columns

Abstract

This activity introduces students to data wrangling of tabular data using R and the dplyr package. In particular, it introduces the filter, select, arrange, and mutate operations, as well as the pipe that allows these functions to be chained together. This activity is intended for a statistics or data science course based in R.

Level: Undergraduate
Setting: Classroom
Activity Type:  Learning Cycle
Discipline: Data Science, Computer Science, Statistics
Course: Introductory Statistics, Introductory Data Science, Scientific Computing with R
Keywords: data wrangling, R programming, dplyr, filter, select, arrange, mutate, pipe