NYC Schools Perceptions

  • Guided Project
  • 0.4 hours
  • Intermediate
  • R

Practice using R Notebooks to clean, reshape and visualize survey data to analyze perceptions of NYC schools.

Overview

In this project, you'll take on the role of a data analyst tasked with exploring perceptions of school quality in New York City. Using a real-world dataset of survey responses from parents, teachers, and students, you'll apply your skills in data cleaning, reshaping, visualization, and correlation analysis using R Notebooks. By working hands-on with a large, complex dataset, you'll showcase your ability to extract meaningful insights from raw data - a highly valued skill in data analytics roles. You'll enhance your data wrangling and exploration skills while building an impressive project for your portfolio. Objective: Analyze survey data to uncover insights into parent, teacher, and student perceptions of NYC school quality.

What You'll Learn

  • Employ R Notebooks to showcase your work
  • Reshape a large survey dataset
  • Interpret metadata to inform your data cleaning
  • Explore perceptions of NYC schools using data visualization and correlation

Before You Start

  • Manipulating DataFrames in R, including modifying variables and observations
  • Defining and combining relational data using joins
  • Resolving missing data through omission and imputation techniques
  • Reshaping data between wide and long formats using tidyr

Project Steps

7 steps

  1. 1 Cleaning and Analyzing Data: Show Off Your Skills and Start Building a Portfolio
  2. 2 New York City Schools Survey Data
  3. 3 Simplifying the Dataframes
  4. 4 Creating a Single Dataframe for Analysis
  5. 5 Look for Interesting Correlations and Examine Relationships Using Scatter Plots
  6. 6 Differences in Student, Parent, and Teacher Perceptions: Reshape the Data
  7. 7 Next Steps

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