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Data lives in tables

Data sets are organized in a tabular form. In this unplugged demo, Jeremy Singer explains how to operate on data in tables.

Individual data values, or elements, are organized into tables to describe larger sets of data.

A table might be represented as a spreadsheet, which is often saved as a CSV file.

In our coding class, a table is referred to as a data frame.

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