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title: "The Data Preparation Journey"
author: "Martin Monkman"
date: "2024-02-26T05:47:45Z"
tags: [Tidy, Data Science, Visualization, Textbook]
link: "https://bookdown.org/martin_monkman/DataPreparationJourney/"
length_weight: "12.4%"
repo: "MonkmanMH/data_preparation_with_r"
pinned: false
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Before you can analyze your data, you need to ensure that it is clean and tidy. [...] Welcome to The Data Preparation Journey: Finding Your Way With R, a book published with CRC Press as part of The Data Science Series. This is a work-in-progress; the most recent update is 2024-02-25. It is routinely noted that the Pareto principle applies to data science—80% of one’s time is spent on data collection and preparation, and the remaining 20% on the “fun stuff” like modelling, data visualization, and communication. There is no shortage of material—textbooks, journal articles, blog posts, online ...
