Teaching analytics with modern Excel
Recent college graduates are in the envious position of entering the best labor market in decades. But, in the spirit of Mark Twain, I encourage new workers not to let their job get in the way of …
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While there are many great resources to get help in R, sometimes you just need a second opinion. Here is where the many Internet help boards come in handy, most notably Stack Overflow. …
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In a previous post I explained how to install RStudio, a popular integrated development environment for the R programming language. Open up RStudio for the first time and it might look like …
In my mini-course, "5 Things Excel Users Should Know About R," the fifth is more a point of encouragement than advice: don't panic! (To learn about the other four, why not enroll for the mini-course …
In a recent post I walked through baseball's Pythagorean theorem in Excel. I am finding baseball statistics a great post subject for a variety of reasons: it's freely available, it can be analyzed in …
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Baseball fan? Excel fan? Of course there's a way to combine our nation's two pastimes. Michael Lewis's Moneyball popularized Bill James and the "sabermetrics" school of applying statistical methods …
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