Teaching analytics with modern Excel
I remember my first days of coding R: I would search around for how to do X task, and find out that Y package would be really helpful. But that led to more questions: What are packages in the first …
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Have you ever needed to pull the first record of a dataset? What about the last, or maybe even the seventeenth? This is called indexing. There's a lot of data out there, and indexing gives us a set of …
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In an earlier blog post I offered five ways to get help in R. This post serves as the Python equivalent, assuming you are working in Jupyter notebooks. 0. Web search it This one seems …
In an earlier post I offered a tour of RStudio, the popular integrated development environment and my preferred interface for teaching R. With Python, I favor Jupyter notebooks so figured a similar …
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This presentation has concluded. Thanks again to Michael Olafusi & the UrBizEdge team for hosting. A recording follows and all materials are available at this GitHub repo. I’m pleased to …
Technical publishers are an interesting case study. With most trade books, readers hardly know or are concerned with the publisher. There might be a tiny penguin or house on the corner of the cover, …
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