Module 2 - Data Cleaning

Meeting 04 - Monday, February 22 - Data Cleaning Basics

  • Before Class:
    • From prior meetings:
      • Complete Lab-03 from last week
    • For this meeting:
      • Prep Video A - Types of Data and Levels of Measurement (Blackboard)
      • Prep Video B - Tidy Data (Blackboard)
      • Prep Video C - Verbs for Data Cleaning (1) (Blackboard)
      • Prep Video D - Verbs for Data Cleaning (2) (Blackboard)
      • Brewer, Designing Better Maps, Chapter 1, pp 1-6
      • Entry Ticket 04 (Blackboard)
  • After Class:
    • Complete Lab-04 (GitHub)
    • Final Project WP-02 - Data Cleaning (due in two meetings)

Meeting 05 - Monday, March 1 - Combining Data Sources

  • Before Class:
    • From prior meetings:
      • Complete Lab-04 from last week
    • For this meeting:
      • Prep Video A - Table Joins (Blackboard)
      • Prep Video B - Accessing Census Geometric Data (Blackboard)
      • Prep Video C - Accessing Census Tabular Data (Blackboard)
      • Brewer, Designing Better Maps, Chapter 1, pp 6-16
      • Entry Ticket 05 (Blackboard)
  • After Class:
    • Complete Lab-05 (GitHub)
    • Final Project WP-02 - Data Cleaning
    • Final Project WP-03 - Combining Data Sources (due in two weeks)
    • Final Project Annotated Bibliography (due next week; SOC 5650 students only)