Webinar: Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:00-3:00 PM EDT
Presented by : Albert Kim (Middlebury College)
Title: "Tame" data principles and the fivethirtyeight R package
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Abstract: [
http://fivethirtyeight.com/ |
FiveThirtyEight.com ] is a data journalism
website founded by Nate Silver that makes many of the datasets used for their articles
openly available on [
http://github.com/ |
GitHub.com ] . The fivethirtyeight R package
acts as an intermediary to make all this data, its documentation, and links to the
original articles easily accessible to R users. Furthermore, the package "tames"
the data: the data is pre-processed enough so that the biggest barriers to data
exploration faced by novice R users are eliminated, but not so much that the true nature
of the data as it exists "in the wild" is completely betrayed. In this webinar,
I will present the corresponding set of "tame" data principles, discuss the
pedagogical thinking behind them, and present illustrative examples involving datasets
from articles on [
http://fivethirtyeight.com/ |
FiveThirtyEight.com ] .
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