The reticulate package allows R and Python to work together — here’s a tutorial
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Who You Gonna Call if Your Data Science is Lost in Translation?
There was once a business executive who kept coming home troubled and distracted. His partner asked him one evening, “What’s the matter? Something’s worrying you.”. “There’s so much data”, he replied, “and I can’t understand it or get my head around it.” “You could try hiring a data scientist”, suggested his partner. So he did just that. Six months later he was still coming home troubled, and when his partner inquired again what was up, he replied: “There’s so much data, and I can’t understand what my data scientist is telling me about it”.
Ten more random useful things in R you may not know about
I struggled to keep it to ten last time, so here’s ten more for you
Compose and play music in R with the Rmusic package
Introducing a fun, experimental package that allows you to compose simple musical tunes and play them in your R session
Data Scientists: Five things to ask yourself about your career this holiday season
There’s no end of opportunities for Data Scientists out there — you should reflect on how your current situation stacks up
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