Lab 1: data.gov

Due January 17th at 5pm.

Instructions

• do the reading from January 12th
• find and download one data set from data.gov as a .csv
• load it into R and find something interesting
• communicate your results in R Markdown
  • write 1 paragraph describing the data set and what makes your result interesting
  • make one plot
  • compute one statistic

Deliverables

Name the R Markdown file first_last_L1.Rmd (i.e. iain_carmichael_L1.Rmd). On Sakai submit

• the .Rmd file
• the .pdf file
• the data

Note: please upload a .pdf file, not and .html file. Sakai does not play well with .html.

Hints

• do all of your analysis in an R script file then copy the code into an R Markdown document
• some of the data on data.gov may be messy (have missing values, not load properly, not tell you what the columns mean, etc)
  • either try cleaning the data set yourself
  • or find a cleaner data set
• save the data set in the same folder as the .Rmd file
• there is lot’s of example code in chapter 3 of r4ds.
• try copy/pasting some of the code from r4ds and make various plots using the data set you have downloaded
• simple histogram or scatter plot will probably suffice