Homework Two: Reading in Data

HW2 practice reading in data with the railroad_2012_clean_county.csv dataset

Megan Georges
10-01-2021

Practice reading in data

I will be using the 2012 US Railroad Employment dataset. This data breaks down US railroad employment in 2012 by state and county.

Railroad <- read.csv("../../_data/railroad_2012_clean_county.csv")

Descriptive Statistics

Below is some information on the railroad dataset.

colnames(Railroad)
[1] "state"           "county"          "total_employees"
summary(Railroad)
    state              county          total_employees  
 Length:2930        Length:2930        Min.   :   1.00  
 Class :character   Class :character   1st Qu.:   7.00  
 Mode  :character   Mode  :character   Median :  21.00  
                                       Mean   :  87.18  
                                       3rd Qu.:  65.00  
                                       Max.   :8207.00  

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Citation

For attribution, please cite this work as

Georges (2021, Oct. 1). DACSS 601 Fall 2021: Homework Two: Reading in Data. Retrieved from https://mrolfe.github.io/DACSS601Fall21/posts/2021-10-01-hw2-post-georges/

BibTeX citation

@misc{georges2021homework,
  author = {Georges, Megan},
  title = {DACSS 601 Fall 2021: Homework Two: Reading in Data},
  url = {https://mrolfe.github.io/DACSS601Fall21/posts/2021-10-01-hw2-post-georges/},
  year = {2021}
}