5.2 - Intro to Data Frames

Thursday, February 13

In class

Thursday

• Introducing data frames, importing and viewing data with R.
• Story workshop on disparities in traffic stops

Due this week

• If you didn’t do it during the reading, do the exercise at the bottom of the R Study Guide Chapter 3: Data Frames and the Tidyverse. This is the NEA data that you’ve seen before. You don’t need to turn anything in.

Preparation

Skills

We’ll go through in class the skills part, but if you want to read ahead:

• R Study Guide Chapter 3: Data Frames and the Tidyverse

Reading

• Two takes on racial disparities in traffic stops:
  • Analysis: LAPD searches blacks and Latinos more., Ben Poston and Cindy Chan, Los Angeles Times, October 2019
  • The disproportionate risk of driving while black, Sharon LaFraniere and Andrew W. Lehren. Sharon has a really graceful way of writing about data.