Exploring NACE codes
A quick one today. If you work with economic data, you’ll be confronted to NACE code sooner or later. NACE stands for Nomenclature statistique des Activités économiques dans la Communauté...continue reading.
A quick one today. If you work with economic data, you’ll be confronted to NACE code sooner or later. NACE stands for Nomenclature statistique des Activités économiques dans la Communauté...continue reading.
In this series, I’ve covered five terms for data manipulation:arrangefiltermutateselectsummariseThese are the verbs that make up the grammar of data manipulation. They all work with group_by to perform these functions...continue reading.
“When is Mom’s birthday?” “Remind me to pick up flowers and a cake this afternoon.” “How do I get to the nearest flower shop?” “Find the best bakeries near me.”...continue reading.
This will be a very short post for a line of code I’ve found unbelievably useful as I analyze data for work. I’m working with datasets containing millions of rows...continue reading.
A weekly Monde current mathematical puzzle that reminded me of an earlier one (but was too lazy to check): The integer n=36 enjoys the property that all the differences between...continue reading.
One of the easiest ways to make a beautiful ggplot is by using a theme. ggplot2 comes with a variety of pre-existing themes. I’ll use the genre statistics summary table...continue reading.
Roland Stevenson is a data scientist and consultant who may be reached on Linkedin. Git and its online extensions like GitHub, Bitbucket, and GitLab are essential tools for data science....continue reading.
Today, we’ll finally talk about summarise! It’s very similar to mutate, but instead of adding or altering a variable in a dataset, it aggregates your data, creating a new tibble...continue reading.
The Root Problem: We Don’t All Speak the Same Language Organizations across the modern business world recognize the critical importance of Data Science for competitive advantage. That recognition has driven...continue reading.
This is an exciting week for us on the tidymodels team; we launched tidymodels.org, a new central location with resources and documentation for tidymodels packages. There is a TON to...continue reading.
The Root Problem: We Don’t All Speak the Same Language Organizations across the modern business world recognize the critical importance of Data Science for competitive advantage. That recognition has driven...continue reading.
This is an exciting week for us on the tidymodels team; we launched tidymodels.org, a new central location with resources and documentation for tidymodels packages. There is a TON to...continue reading.
The tidyverse is full of functions for reading data, beginning with “read_”. The read_csv I’ve used to access my reads2019 data is one example, falling under the read_delim functions. read_tsv...continue reading.
April 23rdth (8:00pm GMT+2) is the next time we’ll be hosting a webinar at Why R? Foundation YouTube channel – https://youtube.com/c/WhyRFoundation This time we will have a joint presentation by...continue reading.
Launch of New Course Platform After months of hard work we are really excited to launch our brand-new course platform to learn and apply data science. Together with the new...continue reading.
If you are a data scientist with a built-out set of modeling tools that you know well, and which are almost always adequate for getting your work done, it is...continue reading.
We’re thrilled to announce the launch of tidymodels.org! The site is a central location for learning and using the tidymodels packages. It has a new take on a familiar look:...continue reading.
A new sparklyr release is now available. This sparklyr 1.2 release features new functionalities such as support for Databricks Connect, a Spark backend for the ‘foreach’ package, inter-op improvements for...continue reading.
“…an essential part of understanding how many ties these RNGs produce is to understand how many ties one expects in 32-bit integer arithmetic.” A sort of a birthday-problem paper for...continue reading.