Tidy data is one of the most complex concepts for participants in R in 3 Months. Even before they get to the actual coding involved in data tidying, many struggle with what tidy data is exactly. I introduce tidy data to R in 3 Months participants through this lesson (which comes from
As 2021 comes to a close, I wanted to share what R for the Rest of Us has been up to this year. It’s been a busy year and just trying to remember everything we did has been a challenge! You’ll notice first of all that I said we. I’ve always used
A couple years ago, I read Paul Jarvis’s book Company of One. The book argues that the idea of growth for its own sake is often misguided. Instead, businesses should grow at a speed that fits with the work and personal goals of their owners. I loved the whole book, but one
In a lot of the consulting work that R for the Rest of Us does, we do complex layouts of the sort are typically done with page layout software like Adobe InDesign. For example, in the reports we did on demographic and housing data in Connecticut, the charts were laid out in a complex grid
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.
