Teaching analytics with modern Excel
For a long time, many data analysts worked firmly ensconsed in the Microsoft stack -- definitely Excel, maybe some Access, PowerPoint or VBA serving as the automative glue. If it wasn't Microsoft, it …
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It feels like I can't go a week of datascrolling without hearing someone pose the distinction between learning technical skills and business skills as a data analyst. I get the question, I really …
I'm sure many readers got excited by the data science possibilities of the title. However, decision trees are more than statistical algorithms -- in a broader sense they are any schematics used to …
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I remember when I first got into Python and heard about Anaconda. It wasn't really clear to me if Anaconda was a "dialect" of Python code, a really awesome suite of tools for working with Python, or …
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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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When I took an empirical finance in graduate school [redacted] years ago, the course was conducted in SAS. I've never used SAS since: it's too expensive! That same course today is conducted in …
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