How to Create Publication-Ready, Formatted Summary Statistics and Correlation Tables in R to Export to Excel or Word
Whether you’re a professional Data Scientist, experienced academic researcher or a student learning the basics of data science, skills in creating publication-ready tables and graphics are essential. Visually-appealing, clear and error-free tables can help enhance any report or presentation, and for some publications such as scientific articles or white papers, formatting tables in line with…
How to Set Up Your Home Office Up for Success: 5 Technology and Design Tips for Making the Most of Remote Work
If there is one thing that has changed during the COVID-19 pandemic, it is the large-scale transition from working in an office building to working from home. Of course, with such a large percentage of people working from home, there was a substantial adjustment and adaptation period to the new work environment, with its unique…
How to Create and Publish a Nested Pie Chart in R with the Plotly Package (aka a Pie Chart within a Donut Chart)
One of the major strengths of R and RStudio is the vast collection of packages to accomplish all sorts of specific tasks and larger projects. Whether you are trying to conduct advanced statistical analysis and machine learning, scrape data from the web, or create publication-ready graphics and visualizations, chances are R has a package available…
How to Enter and Win Data Science Competitions: 5 Insider Tips to Help You Succeed
Whether you are just getting started in data science or have a wealth of experience, entering data science competitions is an excellent way to practice and demonstrate your skill with real world datasets. In the past few years, more and more organizations, companies and academic institutions have started offering contests for various data science projects,…
Starting a Data Science Career in Today’s Uncertain Economy During the COVID-19 Pandemic: 3 Strategies to Help You Go From Application to Job Offer
Despite the alarming state of the larger job market during the past several months since March 2020, there are luckily still thousands of openings for data scientists, machine learning engineers and data analysts in a variety of different industries worldwide. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many companies already had widely distributed and remote work situations,…
How to Pick Your First Data Science Software Package: A Comparison of R, Python, Stata and SPSS
This is the fourth and final article in our series from Data Science for Anyone that covers ways in which ordinary people can develop skills in data science to apply in their day job, advance in their career or succeed in data science courses. Don’t miss the second featured article in our series, which covers…
10 Essential Packages for Data Science in R
This is the third article in our series from Data Science for Anyone that covers ways in which ordinary people can develop skills in data science to apply in their day job, advance in their career or succeed in data science courses. Don’t miss the first featured article in our series which reviews the data…
How to Get Started in a Career in Data Science: 5 Tips to Help You Succeed
This is the second article in our series from Data Science for Anyone that covers ways in which ordinary people can develop skills in data science to apply in their day job, advance in their career or excel in educational pursuits. Don’t miss the first featured article in our series which reviews the learning resources…
Anyone Can Learn Data Science and Statistics
This is the first article in our series from Data Science for Anyone that covers ways in which ordinary people can develop skills in data science to apply in their day job, advance in their career or excel in educational pursuits. Data science is one of the most desired set of skills in the modern…
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