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Overview of Tidy Data

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Take a look at your data and see which principles of tidy data it violates

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The illustrated blog post Tidy data for efficiency, reproducibility, and collaboration by Julie Lowndes and Allison Horst is a great way to start learning about tidy data.

Chapter 5 of the book R for Data Science also has a nice overview of tidy data.

There is also an in-depth vignette in the tidyr package documentation about tidy data.

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gene trevino

gene trevino • January 9, 2025

I dont undestand what this line does [ pivot_longer(cols = -c(district_institution_id, school_institution_id) ]

Thanks

David Keyes

David Keyes Founder • January 14, 2025

I don't see that code in this lesson. Can you point me to where exactly you are seeing it?

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