DEVELOPING INTIMACY WITH YOUR DATA
This exercise involves you working with a dataset of your choosing. Visit the website, browse through the options and find a dataset of interest, then follow the simple instructions to download it. With acquisition completed, work through the remaining key steps of examining, transforming and exploring your data to develop a robust familiarisation with its potential offering:
Examination: Thoroughly examine the physical properties (type, size, condition) of your dataset, noting down useful observations or descriptions where relevant.
Transformation: What could you do/would you need to do to clean or modify the existing data to create new values to work with? What other data could you imagine would be valuable to consolidate the existing data?
Exploration: Using a tool of your choice (such as Excel, Tableau, R) to visually explore the dat