Exploring the CDC Data

Harold Nelson

October 5, 2016

load("~/cdc.Rdata")

Exploring the CDC Data

This presentation makes use of standard data analysis tools to explore the CDC data, which you imported in Lab 1.

Before doing this presentation, you should have completed the Datacamp and/or O’Reilly R courses.

You should have RStudio open and the CDC data in the global environment to work through the exercises.

Looking at the Structure

In RSTudio, run the command str(cdc) and examine the results. What does it tell you?

Right-click the link below and choose “Open in a new window” for my explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYgGMPFECfU

Getting a summary of a dataframe

In RStudio run the command summary(cdc) and look at the results. Right-click the link below and choose “Open in a new window” for my explanation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXzPEwtGsDU