JHU ADS 2020 Week 6 - Getting data

Week 6 Learning Objectives

At the end of this lesson you will be able to:

• Define a tidy data set

• Name the parts of a shareable data set

• Download data from multiple sources

• Import data from multiple sources

In this lecture we focus on the first part of data cleaning - getting other people’s data.

Dave Hemprich-Bennett @hammerheadbat

*squints at the files I was sent* #otherpeoplesdata

And don’t forget to tell your friends about JHU Advanced Data Science.

Additional Resources

• An outstanding JSM tutorial on webscraping

• The databases using Rstudio website

• Relational data section of R for Data Science

• Some of my lecture slides on webscraping and APIs

• Some of my lecture slides on databases