Much of the credit for this blog post goes to Thomas Vroylandt. Before we began working together regularly, I made diverging bar charts but never really understood how things worked. Thomas has helped me truly understand how to make these visualizations. In a previous life, I worked in the
I just wanted to give you a quick update on a couple updates I’ve been working on for the last few months. All R for the Rest of Us course videos now have captions! You can also now see the entire transcript for any video.
One problem that people often have, especially when they work on Windows network drives, is that they can’t install packages. This typically happens because they don’t have admin rights on their computer and by default R tries to install packages into a location that requires admin rights. To see where your packages
My name is Ibrah Sendide and I am a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. My work in health economics and outcomes research includes modelling cost effectiveness in health, statistical data analysis and econometric analyses. I recently completed the R in 3 Months program and wanted to share about my experience with
During his presidency, Barack Obama famously wore only gray or blue suits (with one minor exception). In a 2012 interview with Vanity Fair, he explained why: I’m trying to pare down decisions. I don’t want to make decisions about what I’m eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to
Those of us who work with R dream of just one thing: getting clean data, ready for analysis. Rarely does this happen, of course. As Steve Lohr wrote in the New York Times in 2014, those working with data: spend from 50 percent to 80 percent of their time mired in this
