Overview

• Identify programming as a form of problem solving
• Practice decomposing a goal into a set of discrete, computational tasks
• Identify the basic verbs for a language of data manipulation
• Familiarize with Pipes
• Practice transforming data

Before class

• Required: read Chapter 5 “Data Transformation” and Chapter 18 “Pipes” from R for Data Science

Class materials

• Computer programming as a form of problem solving
• dplyr in brief
• Practice transforming college education data

Additional resources

• Cheat sheet Data Wrangling with dplyr and tidyr

What you need to do after class

• Start Homework 2
• Review this week’s readings and notes