Online Seminar #16 - Introduction to Factor for Handling Ordered Categorical Data

Factor is one of the data types in R and it is designed to address typical challenges with categorical data. With Factor data type, we can set the order for the categorical values and manipulate the order based on your needs with a series of convenient functions.

In this seminar, I have introduced the Factor data type and demonstrated how to use it in Exploratory.

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Sample Data

  • 2018 Kaggle ML & DS Survey - Link
  • US Presidents Data - Link
  • US Beer Tax Data - Link