Tidy Data

There are three interrelated rules which make a dataset tidy:

That interrelationship leads to an even simpler set of practical instructions:

Lesson

Download the script that generates the tables for the lesson here

  1. Tidy Data

Exercise

  1. Are the bike counts data tidy data?
  2. If not, why not? And how can we tidy it?

Resources

  1. Dataframe Manipulation with tidyr
  2. Data Wrangling Cheat sheet
  3. Introduction to tidyr