Data Wrangling with R

Gustavo Santos
5 min readJan 25, 2023

Sneak peek into my new book released in February.

Data Wrangling with R, available on Amazon: https://packt.link/B6cmM — Published by Packt Publishing.

A little of my history

If you follow my Linkedin page, you may already be aware that I am about to release a book called Data Wrangling with R with Packt Publishing. The issuing date is February 23, 2023. So, it’s already available in Amazon and Packt website.

Wow! A few years back, if you asked me where I would be and what I would be doing in 2023, I could have said so many things, but I would probably not say I was going to be releasing a new book — and in English! After all, that is not my native language. I am Brazilian, so I speak Portuguese.

But, well, life takes us through some nice and crazy ways that led me to the USA. Suddenly I was writing this Data Science blog and, later, receiving the amazing challenge of contributing with the R Language community by writing a book about Data Wrangling.

Data Wrangling

But what is Data Wrangling? What is this book about?

Data Wrangling means any activity of cleaning, modifying, organizing and transforming data.

As we know — or we should expected it, at least — data will never be presented to Data Scientists in a beautiful, clean and perfect form…

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Gustavo Santos

Data Scientist. I extract insights from data to help people and companies to make better and data driven decisions. | In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gurezende/