You mean… there is actually work involved?!
Shocking.
This is a valuable article.
Tag: R-Project
Tidy Data
A huge amount of effort is spent cleaning data to get it ready for data analysis,
but there has been little research on how to make data cleaning as easy and effective
as possible. This paper tackles a small, but important, subset of data cleaning: data
“tidying”.
— Wickham
Tidy Data is a must-read paper.
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