Whenever opening a data set and understanding it’s layout. I like sorting the data and then browsing it. Let’s try it here in different ways:
sort courseid instrid year
br courseid instrid year
I also like seeing other variables to understand better what each row is telling us, but without sorting them only the first ones.
br courseid instrid year required eval apct
Then I’d like to try changing things up to see if that help my understanding. I use the order
command to change the way variables are displayed on the browse. I’ll mix up the sorting here
order instrid year courseid
sort instrid courseid year
br instrid courseid year required eval apct