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Using Mathlink Cubes to Introduce Data Wrangling with Examples in R (2402.07029v1)
Published 10 Feb 2024 in cs.HC, stat.AP, stat.CO, and stat.OT
Abstract: This paper explores an innovative approach to teaching data wrangling skills to students through hands-on activities before transitioning to coding. Data wrangling, a critical aspect of data analysis, involves cleaning, transforming, and restructuring data. We introduce the use of a physical tool, mathlink cubes, to facilitate a tangible understanding of data sets. This approach helps students grasp the concepts of data wrangling before implementing them in coding languages such as R. We detail a classroom activity that includes hands-on tasks paralleling common data wrangling processes such as filtering, selecting, and mutating, followed by their coding equivalents using R's dplyr
package.