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Coursera cleaning data project

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cleaningdata

Coursera cleaning data project

This repo contains a script to process the data found here: https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fprojectfiles%2FUCI%20HAR%20Dataset.zip

These data need to be downloaded to the script working directory before processing the script.

A full description is available at the site where the data was obtained: http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Human+Activity+Recognition+Using+Smartphones

The script run_analysis.R processes these data as follows:

  • Reads in the UCI HAR data files
  • Renames columns to provide more descriptive variable names (step 4 in assignment)
  • Replaces descriptive activity codes with activity names (step 3 in assignment)
  • Extracts only the measurements on the mean and standard deviation for each measurement. (step 2 in assignment)
  • Merges the training and test data sets to create one data set (step 1 in assignment)
  • Step 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.
  • Saves the output from step 5 to a file called "har_data_averages.csv