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 …
I’ve been mulling over some things. I hope that by sharing them, it will spark some inspiration for others. I think R needs a good, comprehensive and curated learning platform. Ever since you-know-who did you-know-what and then the leadership proceeded to shoot themselves in both feet, and after running out …
Some folks at work expressed an interest in how to get started learning R. There are lots of resources out there, but I thought I’d share with you what I shared with them as a pathway that I followed that’s working out well for me. You don’t need all these …
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 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 …
