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Episode ordering - stringsAsFactors discussed before Understanding Factors episode #584

Closed elichad closed 8 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 8 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 8 months ago

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