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There’s a great deal of open data available on the GoC Open Data Portal. To have some fun, I’ve decided to randomly select datasets from the portal and explore what can be learned from these datasets using some quick analysis… Read moreDiving in to GoC Open Data – A CRTC dataset
So this is just a quick post to share the Report to the Clerk of the Privy Council: A Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service which can be found at the following URL: https://www.canada.ca/en/privy-council/corporate/clerk/publications/data-strategy.html You have likely read… Read moreA Data Strategy Roadmap for the Federal Public Service
In this post we will take a look at changing axis text on graphs between English and French (or in fact any other languages you want). You should use the pbix we created in the previous posts to work from…. Read moreGOC Power BI tips #5 – Dynamically changing axis text between English and French
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 this post we will look at taking a regular date column and turning it into a French Translated date. You should have worked through the previous posts as we will be using the pbix file that was created in GOC… Read moreGOC Power BI tips #4 – Automatic translation from a date column to a French date
So this is a “stepping stone” post that will take us to the next blog in which will create a French Date column that is automatically translated from a regular date column. Even though this is an interim step, having… Read moreGOC Power BI tips #3 – Automatic translation from an English to a French Month
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