Just an update that I am not going to be posting as regularly on the blog, probably for the rest of 2018. You might see an occasional post or two if the mood strikes, but for the time being I want to focus my attention on improving my acumen in data science and especially the R programming language.
What’s next?
This blog is often classified as an “Excel blog” and I love the application and especially its community. I wouldn’t expect as much content on this topic in the future, but I do plan my posts to continue in the vein of data management and innovation which has been its core theme.
The Microsoft BI stack (including Excel) has become quite sophisticated and continues to expand and I have simply not kept up on the changes to Excel (Power Query, dynamic arrays, etc.) and other tools like Power BI and Microsoft Flow in order to provide the best possible content. Instead I have focused my efforts on data science with R. They are both good tools and are really meant to work in tandem. Tools are tools and I really want to focus on how these tools contribute to being a more thoughtful analyst.
Posts in the future will likely use R as the software vehicle and I plan to continue posting “analyst philosophy” posts like this and this. While these posts don’t get much traffic they come with extreme personal reward and provide a more holistic look at what it means to be an analyst.
In the meantime, I would highly recommend my new course on R for Excel Users. This is “the course I wish I had” when starting to learn R as a spreadsheet analyst.
You can also drop me a line or connect on social media.
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