Using Mathlink Cubes to Introduce Data Wrangling with Examples in R
<|reference_start|>Using Mathlink Cubes to Introduce Data Wrangling with Examples in R: This paper explores an innovative approach to teaching data wrangling skills to students through hands-on activities before transitioning to coding. Data wrangling, a critical aspect of data analysis, involves cleaning, transforming, and restructuring data. We introduce the use of a physical tool, mathlink cubes, to facilitate a tangible understanding of data sets. This approach helps students grasp the concepts of data wrangling before implementing them in coding languages such as R. We detail a classroom activity that includes hands-on tasks paralleling common data wrangling processes such as filtering, selecting, and mutating, followed by their coding equivalents using R's `dplyr` package.<|reference_end|>
@article{mcgowan2024using,
    title={Using Mathlink Cubes to Introduce Data Wrangling with Examples in R},
    author={Lucy D'Agostino McGowan},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.07029},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2402.07029},
    primaryClass={cs.HC stat.AP stat.CO stat.OT}
}