Tidyverse Overview
Learn what the tidyverse is, what tidy data means, and how it makes data science work in R more organized, readable, and efficient.
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Let’s go over what tidyverse is.
tidyverse overview
The tidyverse is a set of R packages designed to work together seamlessly so data manipulation and visualization are consistent, logical, and easily readable. The tidyverse isn’t the only way to do things in R. In fact, many R users don’t use the tidyverse and will stick with base-R, then layer other packages on top of that. In fact, we already have all the skills needed to do many analyses in R. However, in a data science context, there are some significant benefits to moving into the tidyverse.
One thing we quickly discover outside of the tidyverse is that a considerable portion of our code will be converting the output of one function to be useable as the input to another function. The tidyverse is all about ensuring consistency to address that need. The tidyverse lets us focus on analysis rather than data manipulation.
A good rule of thumb for data scientists is that about 80% of code is around cleaning our data, a.k.a. tidying it up. The tidyverse will ...