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Tidy Data

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It’s important that you know how to layout your data in an orderly way so that it is easy to work with. We shall call this a tidy data set.

A data set is made up of columns and rows. Columns represent variables of the data we have collected. Rows represent individual elements of data.

Example of a tidy data sheet indicating the intersection of a column and a row

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Essential Mathematics for Data Analysis in Microsoft Excel

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