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Category Archives: Code
If Marie Kondo did SQL…
An introduction into tidy databases in R with dbplyr
Get any US music chart listing from history in your R console
Learn about R’s scraping capabilities and write a simple function to grab a US music chart from any date in the past
How to do that animated ‘race’ bar chart
Explore the all time best teams of English football and learn how to make one of those race bar charts that have become popular
Ten random useful things in R that you might not know about
R is full of useful stuff. Here are a few things that I use a lot which others may not know about.
The force is strong in you if you abstract your R code
By writing a function to analyze Star Wars characters, learn the powerful abstraction capabilities of R
In R Shiny, when is an error really an error?
How to test your server side output and stop unnecessary red error messages of death appearing in your user interface
How to cut out the SQL middle-person in analytics
Constantly manually executing SQL queries for your clients? Here’s a way to get them to help themselves.
How to build R Shiny apps that update themselves
It is now possible to build Shiny apps that can update themselves on a regular basis, pulling in refreshed data so that people are always looking at the most up to date analysis. So with one up front development sprint, an analyst can reduce their ongoing analytic workload on a particular topic by close to 100%.
Keep calm and do more testing
As data scientists, we are all familiar with what happens when a process, package or application breaks. We dive into it with interest to try to diagnose where the unanticipated error occurred. Did something unexpected occur in the raw data? Did our code not anticipate a particular permutation of inputs?