Martin Monkman is a Senior Manager at MNP, and a Course Instructor at the University of Victoria Continuing Studies' Business Intelligence and Data Analytics program. Prior to joining MNP, Martin had a long career at BC Stats, the provincial statistics agency in British Columbia, Canada, including a decade with the job title Provincial Statistician. Martin has Bachelor of Science and Master of Arts degrees in Geography from the University of Victoria, and he has been a member of the Statistical Society of Canada since 2022.

Zusammenfassung
The Data Preparation Journey: Finding Your Way with R introduces the principles of data preparation within in a systematic approach that follows a typical data science or statistical workflow. The principles and practices described within The Data Preparation Journey apply regardless of the context.

Inhalt

Introduction 2. Foundations 3. Data documentation 4. Importing data 5. Importing data: plain-text files 6. Importing data: Excel 7. Importing data: statistical software 8. Importing data: PDF files 9. Data from web sources 10. Linking to relational databases 11. Exploration and validation strategies 12. Cleaning techniques 13. Recap