1. Simple ifelse statement Create the data frame ‘student.df’ with the data provided below: Use a simple ‘ifelse’ statement to add a new column ‘male.teen’ to the data frame. This is a boolean column, indicating T if the observation is a male younger than 20 years. 2. Double for loop Write a double for loop which prints
Required packages and datasets 1. ‘College’ dataset – Colleges in Texas a. Get familiar with the ‘college’ dataset and its row names. b. Get a vector with the college names (‘college.names’) which you will need in the further steps of this and the next exercises. c. Get a vector (‘texas.college’) which contains all colleges with ‘Texas’ in its name.
Required packages for the excises 1. ‘College’ dataset – Basic row manipulations a. Transform ‘College’ from ‘ISLR’ to data.table. Make sure to keep the University identifier. We will use this new data.table called ‘dtcollege’ throughout this block of exercises. b. Get familiar with the dataset and its variables. c. Extract rows 40 to 60 as a new data.table (‘mysubset’).
1. Simple time series plot on ‘non-ts’ data a. Get 200 random numbers and call the object ‘mydata’. Let’s set a seed of 14 for reproducibility. b. Get a time series plot without converting to class ‘ts’. c. Add ablines to the chart to indicate the horizontal boundaries of 0 and 1. 2. Working with ‘xts’ a. Get and load
1. Working with the ‘mtcars’ dataset a. Get a histogram of the ‘mpg’ values of ‘mtcars’. Which bin contains the most observations? b. Are there more automatic (0) or manual (1) transmission-type cars in the dataset? Hint: ‘mtcars’ has 32 observations. c. Get a scatter plot of ‘hp’ vs ‘weight’. 2. Working with the ‘iris’ dataset
1. Function ‘apply’ on a simple matrix: a. Get the following matrix of 5 rows and call it ‘mymatrix’ b. Get the mean of each row c. Get the mean of each column d. Sort the columns in ascending order 2. Using ‘lapply’ on a data.frame ‘mtcars’ a. Use three ‘apply’ family functions to get the minimum values
Data Pre-Processing is the very first step in data analytics. You cannot escape it, it is too important. Unfortunately this topic is widely overlooked and information is hard to find. With this course I will change this! Data Pre-Processing as taught in this course has the following steps: 1. Data Import: this might sound trivial
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