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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 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
To follow up from my last Data Diagram of the Day post, here’s a very quick run down on how each of the domains in the diagram above use data. The key question to ask yourself here is – how… Read moreHow Different Domains Use Data – A Quick Gloss
Here at the Data Action Lab we spend a lot of time talking about all of the different roles, domains and origins of data work. Because of the many threads that have come together over time to create the modern… Read moreData Science Diagram of the Day (1)
So following on from our last post where we took a regular date column and converted it into a GOC fiscal year, in this post we are going to automatically create GOC quarters (Qtr 1 = Apr-Jun, Qtr 2 =… Read moreGOC Power BI tips #2 – Automatic creation of Fiscal Month and Period Calculated Columns