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Peer-graded Assignment for Week 4 of the coursera Getting and Cleaning Data Course

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Peer-graded-Assignment-Getting-and-Cleaning-Data

Peer-graded Assignment for Week 4 of the coursera Getting and Cleaning Data Course

The data used in this course project represent data collected from the accelerometers from the Samsung Galaxy S smartphone.

More information about the data can be found through the data source website: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Human+Activity+Recognition+Using+Smartphones

run_analysis.R performs the data preparation and then followed by the 5 steps required as described in the course project’s definition:

  1. Merges the training and the test sets to create one data set.
  2. Extracts only the measurements on the mean and standard deviation for each measurement.
  3. Uses descriptive activity names to name the activities in the data set
  4. Appropriately labels the data set with descriptive variable names.

5.From the data set in step 4, creates a second, independent tidy data set with the average of each variable for each activity and each subject. This dataset is found in the repo as FinalData.txt