Project-2 Data Wrangling

Author

Ben Baumer

Learning Goals

  • To further sharpen data wrangling and data visualization skills
  • To learn how to collaborate using modern workflows

Technical Skills

  • dplyr
  • tidyr
  • GitHub

Project

You will work in a group of two or three (groups posted to Slack and Moodle) to analyze Federal Election Commission data contained in the fec20 package, and report your findings in a short write-up. The topic is up to you and your group. The best projects will:

  • discuss an interesting and well-motivated topic
  • involve some non-trivial data wrangling (e.g. not just a bunch of mutate()s)
  • provide a well thought-out, informative analysis
  • convey some sort of insight
  • be well-written
  • consist of 400–600 words

GitHub

You will use GitHub to collaborate with your partner(s) on this assignment.

Submission

  1. Push all commits to GitHub
  2. The final commit should have a rendered .html file with a message teeling me the project is complete.

Data

You will have to install the fec20 package.

These data come from the Federal Election Commission, and are based on the 2019–2020 federal election cycle. These data were collected using the fec20 package for R.

There are several tables present. To load them, switch to the mp2-group-x project in RStudio, pull, and run the following:

library(fec20)

Be sure to read the supporting documentation for these data!! It is your responsibility to know what you are looking at!