03 August 2020 I’ve got a fun little side project going and I’m inviting you along for the journey! The folks at DataJobs.nl have very kindly agreed to let me analyse all their job ads data. DataJobs is a website that posts data-related job ads for roles based in the …
After some 15 years using Excel, I’m not sure how I’ve never seen this issue until now (or did I just not notice 😱 ?). In this post, I’ll quickly cover what it is and how to fix it. Firstly, it’s not a bug. It’s a feature built into Excel …
At some point you may be looking for a “real world” dataset to practice analysis on or to give to students. The value of such data is that it gives analysts a chance to develop skills they need for their work, but are hard to master when given “clean” datasets, …
In late 2020 I was hiring for a data analyst role. We were looking for someone with domain expertise, R and some SQL if possible. That alone is a long wishlist ;). Originally this post started as a twitter thread which you can find a link to at the end. These …
A little while ago I noticed some really interesting graphs composed entirely of emoji and I’ve been keen to gather a bunch of examples together. I like “EmojiVIz” because it’s engaging, succinct and if done well, really informative and memorable. Case in point: some of the EmojiViz included this post …
People using R for analysis or data science might have heard that the R community is really active on Twitter, but feel a bit lost when trying to figure out how to use Twitter. Like most social media apps, there’s a bit of a learning curve to get going. In …
In the foreseeable future, at least rudimentary forms of data analysis will find its way to many jobs, much as email has done. However, I don’t think that everyone needs to be a deep-learning ninja, needs to know what Kuburnetes is or even how to do a docker-hub (😝). In …
In this post I’ll be setting out my view for why you may want to learn to code in R rather than in Python, or at least try R. At the end of this post I also share some suggestions for getting started with either. Some background on my …
UPDATE: Some time after writing this post, I discovered a feature in Excel that broke my hear a little, so my love for Excel is slightly diminished Check out the post here. It feels a bit weird to write a post about MS Excel, but I feel compelled to and …
Photo Credit: Warenski The fine folks at Open Up recently published an open data set of recorded fire incidents in the City of Cape Town, South Africa. I found it quite interesting that such a data set was available, so I thought I’d explore the data a little to see …
