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+The dataset used within this course was first obtained from publicly available [DepMap Portal](https://depmap.org/portal/) [data](https://depmap.org/portal/data_page/?tab=overview) (Public Version 23Q2).
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+Some early data wrangling and summarization steps were carried out on the raw DepMap data using [this script for another course](https://github.com/fhdsl/Intro_to_R/blob/main/classroom_data/gen_classroom_data.R). The raw DepMap data loaded within that script is not stored in this or the other course's repo because of file size constraints.
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+This course uses some additional data manipulation steps to add some random noise into the dataset, specifically adding some acronyms or additional spellings for some of the metadata. [This script performs those manipulations on the data.](https://github.com/fhdsl/bench_to_bytes/blob/main/data/modifyData.R) Note that the original dataset which we manipulate is loaded using `load(url("https://github.com/fhdsl/S1_Intro_to_R/raw/main/classroom_data/CCLE.RData"))`.
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+Our new dataset was saved as both an RData object and an Excel Spreadsheet. The RData object can be loaded using `load(url("https://github.com/fhdsl/bench_to_bytes/raw/main/data/depMapData_benchToBytes.RData"))`. The [Excel Spreadsheet can be downloaded with this link](https://github.com/fhdsl/bench_to_bytes/raw/addDataSet/data/depMapData_benchToBytes.xlsx)