Together with the key people behind the data.table package, Matt Dowle and Arun Srinivasan,  DataCamp developed a brand new interactive course to bring your data analysis skillset up to date with the essentials of the powerful data.table package. Learn more…  The popularity of the data.table package is ... [Read more...]

As of today (Tuesday 26th of August), a new session of Professor Eric Zivot’s course on computational finance and financial econometrics starts on Coursera. Just like the previous run of the course, most R labs and R assignments will take place in DataCamp’s interactive learning environment. Designed by ... [Read more...]

Especially for useR! 2014 we created a poster on Rdocumentation.org, our R documentation aggregator that lets you search packages from CRAN, Bioconductor and GitHub. We received a lot of positive and valuable feedback on it, so we decided to share it again via our blog. The Rdocumentation poster answers questions ... [Read more...]

As of today, you can search via Rdocumentation not only CRAN packages, but also the R packages available on GitHub and Bioconductor.  This is our largest update yet, and brings us one step closer to creating  a central place for all R documentation related info and questions. Today, the rise ... [Read more...]

When building an online education start-up for R the number one criterion to meet is the following: identify an increasing interest in learning R online. Once this box is checked, it is time to start thinking of the second most important criterion: establish a teaching approach that makes people so ... [Read more...]

As you all know, the decimal mark is a symbol used to separate the integer part from the fractional part of a number written in decimal form. Since I am born and raised in Continental Europe I am quite found of using the comma sign to indicate a decimal point. ... [Read more...]

A feature all programming communities have in common is the numerous debates about why their programming language of choice is better, more advanced, faster, holier etc. In today’s data science community, it seems like these discussions are omnipresent with advocates of SAS, SPSS, R, Python, Julia, etc. battling and ... [Read more...]

Now that we have reached the milestone of 30,000 (!) enthusiastic R students, and the DataCamp platform is paving its way into academics and professional organizations, we felt it was time to take our design to a higher level. So as of this week, your favourite free learning platform for R tutorials ... [Read more...]

DataCamp first to offer free interactive R tutorials via the OpenIntro platform. In one week, the ten-week Coursera course on Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by prof. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University comes to an end. At DataCamp it was one of our first experiences providing interactive R exercises on ... [Read more...]

Today’s highly active R user base is developing, re-developing, and releasing R packages at a never-before-seen rate. While this is fantastic news for the R community as such, it inevitably also causes growing pains as mentioned before. One of the often cited problems is the painful and time-consuming task ... [Read more...]

To give this years April Fools’ day a more analytical touch, we decided last week do a little poll on internet cartoons. We asked our friends and colleagues to select their favourite data related cartoon on the web, and organized a voting session to construct a top 5 list. (You can ... [Read more...]

Like every start-up in the IT and data science sector, we often find ourselves spending more time on Stack Overflow than on our own site. For those of you who are not familiar with it, Stack Overflow is like a Q&A forum on steroids. It features questions and answers ... [Read more...]

Now that our ‘Learning R’ -series is coming to an end (for those who missed it, have a look at our Twitter or Facebook ), it is time to announce the start of a new series : R-fiddle of the Week. Every week, we will share an R-fiddle link that contains the ... [Read more...]

Quandl is a “wikipedia” for numerical data that allows you to search rapidly through 8 million ready-to-use data sets. At DataCamp we created a free in-browser coding tutorial on how to use the corresponding R package to access Quandl data from within R.    As every real world data analyst knows, finding ... [Read more...]

We’re happy to announce that as of today, DataCamp has added two new and free online interactive courses to its curriculum: ‘Data Analysis and Statistical Inference‘ and ‘Introduction to Computational Finance‘.  They will be the biggest DataCamp courses to date, so we’re very excited to find out what ... [Read more...]