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R has become one of the world’s leading languages for statistical and data analysis. While the base R installation does support simple visualizations, its plots are rarely of high-enough quality for publication. Enter Hadley Wickam’s ggplot2, an aesthetically and logical… Read moreA ggplot2 Primer
What do you feel like eating for dinner tonight? Do you feel like pizza, pasta, or perhaps sushi? When you are asked such a question, you would usually provide (some sort of) answer straight away. But how do you come… Read moreA Short Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs)
In Data Science and Data Analysis, as in most technical or quantitative fields of inquiry, there is an important distinction between understanding the theoretical underpinnings of the methods and knowing how and when to best apply them to practical situations…. Read moreData Analysis Case Studies
In his 2006 offering Beautiful Evidence, Edward Tufte highlights what he calls the Fundamental Principles of Analytical Design. In this short article, we illustrate Tufte’s principles by analyzing the Gapminder’s Foundation Health and Wealth 2012 data visualization. Data Science Report Series… Read moreFundamentals Principles of Analytical Design
R has become one of the world’s leading languages for statistical and data analysis. In this report, we provide a short description of its core functionality. Data Science Report Series #1: Basics of R for Data Analysis, by Ehssan Ghashim and… Read moreBasics of R for Data Analysis