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Welcome to Data Cleaning with R
- What is Data Cleaning?
- Course Logistics and Materials
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Data Organization
- Data Organization Best Practices
- Tidy Data
- Grouping and Indicator Variables
- NA and Empty Values
- Data Sharing Best Practices
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Restructuring Data
- Tidyverse Refresher
- Working with Columns with across()
- Pivoting Data
- coalesce() and fill()
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Regular Expressions
- What are Regular Expressions?
- Understanding and Testing Regular Expressions
- Literal Characters and Metacharacters
- Metacharacters: Quantifiers
- Metacharacters: Alternation, Special Sequences, and Escapes
- Combining Metacharacters
- Regex in R
- Regular Expressions and Data Cleaning, Part 1
- Regular Expressions and Data Cleaning, Part 2
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Common Issues
- Common Issues in Data Cleaning
- Unusable Variable Names
- Whitespace
- Letter Case
- Missing, Implicit, or Misplaced Grouping Variables
- Compound Values
- Duplicated Values
- Broken Values
- Empty Rows and Columns
- Parsing Numbers
- Putting Everything Together
Data Cleaning with R
Whitespace
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Your Turn
In the Marine Protected Areas dataset from the previous lesson (MPAS-your.csv), check the Country variable for leading or trailing whitespace and remove it if necessary.
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