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Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund Books

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Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio) and a leading developer of R packages including ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr. Garrett Grolemund is a data scientist, statistician, and educator at Posit, known for his contributions to R education and data visualization.

Known for: R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

Books by Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

R for Data Science: Import, Tidy, Transform, Visualize, and Model Data

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R for Data Science introduces readers to the R programming language and the tidyverse ecosystem for data analysis. It covers data import, cleaning, transformation, visualization, and modeling, emphasizing a practical, hands-on approach to real-world data science workflows.

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The Tidyverse Philosophy: A Unified Grammar for Data Work

At the core of this book lies the tidyverse — a suite of R packages connected by shared design principles. The tidyverse exists because data scientists need consistency. Before tidyverse tools matured, R codebases were fragmented; each package followed its own conventions, leading to confusion and i...

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Importing and Preparing Data: Building the Foundation

Every analysis begins with data that often arrives messy, incomplete, or stored in formats unfriendly to exploration. In this stage, we take deliberate steps to bring raw data into R using packages like 'readr', 'readxl', and database interfaces. Each of these tools serves one purpose — to give you ...

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About Hadley Wickham, Garrett Grolemund

Hadley Wickham is Chief Scientist at Posit (formerly RStudio) and a leading developer of R packages including ggplot2, dplyr, and tidyr. Garrett Grolemund is a data scientist, statistician, and educator at Posit, known for his contributions to R education and data visualization.

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