Look what touched down in my mailbox today... 🏈 _Football Analytics with Python & R_ by Eric Eager and Richard Erickson. I had the pleasure to be a tech reviewer for this book …
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Excel Power Query PDQ!
1 hour to Power Query in Excel (PDQ = Pretty Darn Quick!) It's the most exciting Excel development in a generation... but you'd be forgiven for not knowing about it! Overview This one-hour …
Demonstration of Anscombe’s Quartet in R
Due to the differences in scope between data analytics/business intelligence and data science, there's a school of thought implying that data visualization and statistics are more or less independent …
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How to unpivot a dataset in Excel Power Query vs R vs Python
What makes data clean? You may not be able to name those qualities, but you likely know messy data when you see it. In this blog post, we'll look at a frequent offender: unpivoted data. You'll learn …
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Python was not designed for data analysis (and why that’s OK)
A major reason I think it’s easier for Excel users to pick up R versus Python is that these tools tend to "think" more similarly than Python. See what I mean here: let's take a range of numbers and …
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R for Excel Users First Steps (RStudio Community meetup)
This event has concluded. A replay is now available. Thank you to Rachael Dempsey and the RStudio crew for the opportunity to present. I'm excited to be presenting to the RStudio Community …
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