Interviewing takes a lot of time on top of your high workload and it might even be high BECAUSE you need additional team members. Not to mention that the process can be quite stressful as hiring poorly will make your situation worse, not better. I heard this question about what …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
This is the type of post that I will keep adding to over the years, consider this V1.0 :). I think it may warrant its own book at some point. If you’re starting from scratch, it can be really tough to know where to start or what to prioritise. You’ll …
