For the upcoming Career Day at my children's school.

Because children R the future, and if we don't teach them well, they'll end up hooked on dplyr or (shudder) pandas and matplotlib.

These scripts use a well-known children's story to illustrate data science tasks:

• Getting data: Use data.table to read raw text data (food.txt) into a wide data set
• Transforming datasets: Uses data.table to melt data to long
• Summarizing data: Uses data.table to count by group
• Visualization: Uses ggplot2 to plot food eaten per day (coming soon)
• Modeling: Build glm models to predict how many items the caterpillar will eat (regression) and what kind of items (classification) (coming soon)

Disclaimer: This project uses plot elements of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, a copyrighted work, under Fair Use for educational purposes. Please visit the Eric Carle website and buy his books for the little caterpillars in your life.