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Masterclass · Wednesday, September 9, 2026
From Unstructured Text to Tidy Data
Nic Crane, PhDOpen Source Developer & R Educator | Apache Arrow Maintainer
Join — $199/mo
This session is included with your Masterclass seat.
What you'll build
- A reproducible pipeline that turns raw, unstructured text into a tidy dataset
What you'll learn
- Where messy text comes from and why it resists analysis
- Reading, cleaning, and tokenizing text in R
- Regular expressions for the patterns that actually matter
- Reshaping text into a tidy, analysis-ready table
About Nic
Open source developer, R educator, and consultant who maintains Apache Arrow and teaches data scientists how to work with LLMs in R.
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