Preface Preface
This book demonstrates how to use the Tidyverse collection of packages for doing data science in R. The Tidyverse is an opinionated collection of R packages designed for data science. All packages share an underlying design philosophy, grammar, and data structures.
In this book we cover the simple idea of “tidy data” and how this idea serves to organize data for analysis and modeling. We cover the data science project life cycle and the ecosystem of Tidyverse R packages that can be used at each step: importing data, tidying data, exploring and visualizing data, and building prediction models. We assume familiarity with the R programming language. If you are not yet familiar with R, we suggest you first complete R Programming before returning to complete this book.
