Teaching data science with puzzles
summary
A set of bite sized coding puzzles named Tidies of March uses an R package to create a project skeleton, download numbered puzzle folders, and guide users through importing, reshaping and testing messy data with the tidyverse. Each puzzle includes a sample test case, an answer submission, and example solutions; common operations like separate_rows are demonstrated. Puzzles take roughly 10–30 minutes, model good workflows (R projects, rmarkdown, version control) and report positive early feedback.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35Advent of Code
- 2:10The Project
- 3:23Goals
- 9:23Puzzle Example
- 9:55Sample Data
- 12:02Submitting Solution
- 13:45Conclusion
- 14:18Questions
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