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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

By : Radhika Datar, Harish Garg
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Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R

By: Radhika Datar, Harish Garg

Overview of this book

Hands-On Exploratory Data Analysis with R will help you build a strong foundation in data analysis and get well-versed with elementary ways to analyze data. You will learn how to understand your data and summarize its characteristics. You'll also study the structure of your data, and you'll explore graphical and numerical techniques using the R language. This book covers the entire exploratory data analysis (EDA) process—data collection, generating statistics, distribution, and invalidating the hypothesis. As you progress through the book, you will set up a data analysis environment with tools such as ggplot2, knitr, and R Markdown, using DOE Scatter Plot and SML2010 for multifactor, optimization, and regression data problems. By the end of this book, you will be able to successfully carry out a preliminary investigation on any dataset, uncover hidden insights, and present your results in a business context.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Section 1: Setting Up Data Analysis Environment
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Section 2: Univariate, Time Series, and Multivariate Data
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Section 3: Multifactor, Optimization, and Regression Data Problems
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Section 4: Conclusions

Summary

In this chapter, we have focused on the implementation of the ggplot2() library, which is considered to be a data visualization library. We have listed some of the various packages that are available for reading various kinds of attributes within the mentioned dataset in R. Many different options are available, and even the options we have listed have a wide functionality, which we are going to cover and use as we go further into the book. In this chapter, we mainly covered different plots, including scatter plots, histogram plots, density plots, probability plots, and box plots.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to use RStudio to wrap your code, graphics, plots, and findings in a complete and informative data analysis report, and how to publish it in different formats for different audiences using R markdown and packages such as knitr.

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