Project Description for Getting and Clean Data course

Source of Data

The research was to study the motive of wearable computer devices. It was

published in Davide Anguita, Alessandro Ghio, Luca Oneto, Xavier Parra and Jorge L. Reyes-Ortiz, Human Activity Recognition on Smartphones using a Multiclass Hardware-Friendly Support Vector Machine, International Workshop of Ambient Assisted Living (IWAAL 2012). Victoria-Gasteiz, Spain, Dec 2012.

Steps of Analysis (run_Analysis.R file)

Read in the data files

Collect the data into one data object

Select only the data pertaining to the mean and standard deviation

Clean up the names of the variables and the labels

Create a "tidy data set"

Summarize the "tidy data set" by getting averages

Write the summarized data set to a txt file