The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási My initial impression of this book was one of skepticism. The Universal Laws of Success, really? Most books with this sweeping …
Review: Excel TV’s Data Science with Power BI and R
I have had a long history with Excel TV and, like Excel TV (and Excel itself) the channel has changed over the years. Gone are their regular live-streaming interviews with leading Excel authorities. …
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Writing Code to Read Quotes About Writing Code
A recent project of mine has been setting up a Twitter bot on innovation quotes. I enjoy this project because in addition to curating a great set of content and growing an audience around it, I have …
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How Visiting Obscure Places Makes Me a Better Analyst
"I love to travel" is such a platitude these days, usually synonymous with "I like to go on vacation in faraway places." But the best travel I have found often starts locally, with those …
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Downloading 24-Hour Weather Updates in R
This post serves as a follow-up on a previous post about scheduled collection of Weather.gov's XML feed in R, which itself was a follow-up to retrieving real-time data from Weather.gov in …
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Recording Weather.gov History using R and the Windows Task Scheduler
Postscript: Turns out this method using Weather.gov's XML feed is not as effective as using their HTML feed. Check out the HTML sequel here. One of my most popular posts is on retrieving real-time …
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