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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.

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Part of the Data Analyst in R path.

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Intermediate friendly
6 hours
Self paced
4 lessons

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Advanced Data Cleaning in R

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Course overview

You’ll learn about regular expressions (regex), a powerful tool that allows you to match and manipulate text data with precision. You’ll also learn to work with JSON data, a common format you’ll encounter when pulling data from web APIs. Then you’ll dive into map and anonymous functions, two intermediate-to-advanced concepts in R that can speed up your data cleaning.

You’ll also learn how to resolve missing values in your data, a critical part of almost every data analysis project. Rather than dropping rows or columns, which reduces the amount of data you have to work with, you’ll learn statistical techniques to impute missing data, and you’ll also learn how to insert data from outside sources.

Best of all, you’ll learn by doing — you’ll practice and get feedback directly in the browser.

Key skills

Cleaning and manipulating text data using regex
Using map and anonymous functions
Resolving missing data
Advanced techniques for data cleaning

Course outline

Advanced Data Cleaning in R [4 lessons]

Regular Expression Basics 2h

Lesson Objectives

Employ regular expressions
Define Regex components like character classes and quantifiers
Implement regular expressions with the stringr package

Advanced Regular Expressions 2h

Lesson Objectives

Clean data by substituting regular expression matches
Employ lookarounds to include and exclude text before and after your regex match
Extract new columns from text data using capture groups

Map and Anonymous Functions 2h

Lesson Objectives

Read JSON files
Ceate and transform lists using map functions
Create anonymous functions

Working with Missing Data 2h

Lesson Objectives

Identify missing data using both code and visualizations
Resolve missing data using imputation
Fill missing values using external data

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