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Episode ordering - stringsAsFactors discussed before Understanding Factors episode #584

Closed elichad closed 12 months ago

elichad commented 1 year ago

I've been following the lesson by myself. I'm new to R and I don't come from a data science background. On the whole, I've found it extremely useful, but there was one point at which I became confused.

I had never heard of factors before, and it was confusing to encounter them for the first time in episode 11 when discussing the stringsAsFactors argument to read.csv. I ended up Googling factors by myself, because I assumed I had missed something fundamental, only to find the information I was looking for later in episode 12. The lesson would have flowed better for me if episode 12 (Understanding Factors) had come before episode 11.

I will open a PR to at least link to episode 12 from the stringsAsFactors section of episode 11, as that would have helped me.

HaoZeke commented 12 months ago

Thanks for the feedback and quick resolution via PR! I see it was merged, would you like to add more on factors or should this issue be closed for now?

elichad commented 12 months ago

I don't have more to add, so I'm okay with closing this.