In August 2014, I created a 40-minute video tutorial introducing the key functionality of the dplyr package in R. dplyr continues to be my "go-to" package for data exploration and manipulation because of its intuitive syntax, blazing fast performance, ... [Read more...]

Last week, I published a post titled Lessons learned from teaching an 11-week data science course, detailing my experiences and recommendations from teaching General Assembly's 66-hour introductory data science course. In the comments, I received the ... [Read more...]

In January 2014, Stanford University professors Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani (authors of the legendary Elements of Statistical Learning textbook) taught an online course based on their newest textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R (ISLR). I found it to be an excellent course in statistical learning (also ... [Read more...]

I love dplyr. It's my "go-to" package in R for data exploration, data manipulation, and feature engineering. I use dplyr because it saves me time: its performance is blazing fast on data frames, but even more importantly, I can write dplyr code faster ... [Read more...]

When getting started in machine learning, it's often helpful to see a worked example of a real-world problem from start to finish. But it can be hard to find an example with the "right" level of complexity for a novice. Here's what I look for: uses r... [Read more...]

I watched Hadley Wickham's excellent talk on tidy data and tidy tools, and decided to use this as an opportunity to learn about a few of his R packages. (In case you're unfamiliar with Hadley, he is well-known for his contributions to the R ecosystem, ... [Read more...]