Workflow Demonstration part 1

Abstract

This and the next chapter involve us working through the process of getting insights from data. We have chosen a research subject that should have some interest to us all: food. More specifically, what bats eat. In this chapter you will experience a clearly specified set of research questions, learn how the study was performed and why it was done that way, and learn how to prepare your computer, R, and RStudio for the project, and how to read the dataset into R. The chapter also covers how you can clean, tidy, and manipulate the data in R. These are the solid foundations from which robust and reliable insights can grow.