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Category Archives: Data Science & Analytics
Animated storytelling using the Javascript D3 library
D3 is the most flexible data visualization tool available and allows you to create great data storytelling illustrations
Create Hans Rosling’s famous animated bubble chart in a single piped R command
A great little learning exercise that illustrates the range and flexibility of the R language
Five common analysis fails
The things they never tell you in statistics classes
Tidy web scraping in R — Tutorial and resources
It’s a lot easier than you think, and there’s some questionable Seventies music too!
Business analytics is ridden with confirmation bias
With the right process, you can keep it in check
Five tips to getting started in data science programming
Put the time and effort in early and it will make you a great programmer later on
Five reasons why you can’t just “get another data scientist onto it”
The phrase which proves that people don’t know what data science really is
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