/GettingCleaningData

This repository contains an assignment for the coursera course Getting And Cleaning Data

GettingCleaningData

This repository contains an assignment for the coursera course Getting And Cleaning Data

Raw Data for the Assignment

The source of the original data is at: https://d396qusza40orc.cloudfront.net/getdata%2Fprojectfiles%2FUCI%20HAR%20Dataset.zip . The original description can be found at : http://archive.ics.uci.edu/ml/datasets/Human+Activity+Recognition+Using+Smartphones

Description of the Assignment Tasks

The following tasks need to be accomplished:

  • Merges the training and the test sets to create one data set.
  • Extracts only the measurements on the mean and standard deviation for each measurement.
  • Uses descriptive activity names to name the activities in the data set
  • Appropriately labels the data set with descriptive activity names.
  • Creates a second, independent tidy data set with the average of each variable for each activity and each subject.

Quick Run to get the results

Steps:

  • download the zip file from the above link and extract it.
  • open R/ Rstudio - source the script run_analysis.R
  • save the path of the extracted zip file in a variable called "dest"
  • run the script file by source("run_analysis.R") run_analysis(dest)