Course · Intermediate
Advanced Data Cleaning in R
Data scientists spend over 60% of their time cleaning and preparing data for analysis. While it's not the most exciting part of the job, data cleaning is undoubtedly one of the most important skills you need. In this advanced data cleaning course, you'll learn complex data cleaning techniques using R that will help you to stand from the crowd as a data analyst or data scientist.
- Intermediate friendly
- 6 hrs
- 4 lessons
- Premium
Course overview
Work with regular expressions in R to precisely match, clean, and transform text data as part of advanced, real-world data cleaning workflows.
What's inside
4 lessons
- 01 101 minRegular Expression Basics
Learn to perform data cleaning with regular expressions.
- 02 85 minAdvanced Regular Expressions
Describe complex patterns in text data for cleaning and analysis
- 03 62 minMap and Anonymous Functions
Learn techniques to turbo-charge working with data in R.
- 04 91 minWorking with Missing Data
Resolve missing and incorrect data.
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