WiP-rdatatable

Women in Parliament: R data.table Case Study

A six page guide presenting a data.table case study using the World Bank's "Women in Parliament" data.

Objectives

• Demonstrate key features of the data.table package using real-life data.
• Explore the data to answer relevant and pertinent questions.
• Show how things are done whilst keeping the technical details light.
  • Focus on explaining our motivation and thinking.
  • In the spirit of Tinyverse.

Pre-requistes

You should be familiar with the data.table and ggplot2 R packages.

• Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition
• ggplot2

Cross References

There is also a tidyverse version of this guide and repository available at:

• Women in Parliament: R tidyverse Case Study.

If you would like to teach an introduction to data.table, then the following is for you:

• Repsitory of teaching materials for "Getting Started in R - Tinyverse Edition" workshop.

Annoucements

A reminder of source annoucements.

• https://twitter.com/ilustat/status/1106268429047205889
• https://rweekly.org/2019-12.html#Highlight
• https://rweekly.org/2019-12.html#RintheRealWorld
• https://twitter.com/ilustat/status/1203321868972896257 (20191207)

Images

The "Women in Parliament" hex sticker and image are taken from the following repository:

• https://github.com/saghirb/Women-in-Parliament-Hex-Sticker

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Matt Dowle, Arun Srinivasan and all the data.table team and contributors for such a great package.

A big thank you to the reviewers and contributors.