Oddly Satisfying - Find delight in the mundane

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A messy truck‑corridor project with a single Excel workbook of 15,000+ rows and unclear "final" reports gets turned into a reproducible deliverable: replicate the original weighted results, document the weighted mean, and explain why numbers differ; split nine exploratory R Markdown files into three README, summary, methods files; modularize long scripts, record package versions with groundhog/pak/renv, and emit timestamped outputs; key decisions include tier breaks at 15.4 and 26.2 and the distilled analysis that actually runs and can be rerun.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:29Oddly satisfying
3. 3:19Smoothie!
4. 5:02Complete an intake
5. 9:29Modularize

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