06 December 2021 Every time I update Big Book of R I’m blown away by how much good stuff is out there! In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date :). Thanks to Sivuyile Nzimeni for one of the …
30 November 2021 “Is the Google Data Analytics Professional Certificate any good?” Whether you’re a job seeker looking to boost your career or a hiring manager eager to find skilled staff, this is a pertinent question. In this review, I assess the certificate based on the syllabus, and not the …
25 September 2021 Yes fellow R friends, the book list keeps growing nicely. Thank you very much to the contributors (both in submissions and for authoring these books!) : Colin Fay , Robert D. Brown III , William Becker and Tony Hirst JavaScript 4 Shiny – Field Notes by Colin …
Running into errors and warnings is a completely normal part of programming – even the best of the best can count on it happening daily! Getting comfortable with what the errors mean and how to find the solution is part of your learning journey. Here’s a checklist (pdf /png) with …
The collection of R books at BigBookofR continues to grow! Thanks to @erictleaungu , @StanLazic, @rohmanoabdur, @preposterior, @lago67522285 and @lfvasconcelos_ for their contributions. Computing for the social sciences By Dr. Benjamin Soltoff The goal of this course is to teach you basic computational skills and provide you with the means …
21 July 2021 In this post I’m highlighting 10 new books added to Big Book of R. Thank you to the authors for writing them and thanks to R Posts you might have missed who I got a bunch of these from. Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers Roy …
18 June 2021 This is the first time I’m writing up a blog post to summarise new books that have been added to Big Book Of R. I’ll keep doing so in future! A quick thank you to @LeganaFingerhut for adding R for Health Data Science, and to @RCoderWeb for …
Way back in August 2020, I launched Big Book of R, a collection of free (and some paid) R programming books organised by categories like Geospatial, Statistics, Packages and many more. What started off as a 100 book collection has now grown to over 200 :D! Anyway, I felt was …
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 …
