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We're going to use just one very simple format: the data table.

OK Cupid

Sentiment extraction

Tipi rings in Montana

Assessment on family size based on tipi ring diameter

Population size by adding up the rings

Animal tracking

• No units
• No footnotes

Instead, this information should go into a codebook.

Values and Cases need to be commensurate

• Same kind of thing for each case, e.g. don't mix miles and km.
• Within a variable, only the same kind of value for each case.

The object from which the variables were measured.

Examples:

• A person, a country, an earthquake, a bike rental
• A person on a date
• A country in a year
• An earthquake and its aftershocks

1. What is each variable about.
2. What is the kind of object that defines a case

Every value for each variable is the same kind of thing as all the other values for that variable.

Every case is the same kind of thing as all the other cases.

Go to this spreadsheet …Personnel in the US armed forces

Questions:

1. What is the case here?
2. How are the data not tidy?
3. What might these data look like in tidy form?
4. Suppose that the case was "an individual in the armed forces."
   What variables would you use to capture the information in this table?

It's important to be able to state definitely where your data came from.

Part of this is not to edit your data. Once you have a table, don't change anything in it.

Instead, do your data-transformations in R so that you have a complete statement of how the data you collected are related to your analysis.

• Data Table: Rectangular format: cases (rows) and variables (columns)
• Separate analysis from data storage.
• Use a codebook to describe your cases and variables in detail
• Keep your data tidy

The spreadsheet here contains data on the Minneapolis 2013 election by ward and precinct.

1. What is the case here?
2. How are the data not tidy?
3. What might these data look like in tidy form?
4. The data table DataComputing::Minneapolis2013 lists the choices on individual ballots. What is the case?
5. The cases in DataComputing::Minneapolis2013 can be aggregated to produce some of the variables in the spreadsheet.
   1. Which variables in the spreadsheet cannot be recreated from an aggregation of the ballot data? (Background on the voting law: to vote, a person must be registered in advance or do so at the polling place. Votes can be made at the polling place or, for a voter who is away, by mail as an absentee. Some ballots are not legible or otherwise violate voting rules; these are called "spoiled." )
   2. Imagine a data table like DataComputing::Minneapolis2013 that could be aggregated to produce the variables in the spreadsheet. What would the cases be in that table?

<!– ANSWER to 5. The variables relating to registration and absentee voting have information not in the ballot data table. The disaggregated table would have "registered voters" as cases