Publications by DataCamp
Who wants to learn R? Sharing DataCamp’s user stats and insights.
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 excited that they keep coming back to learn ...
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New! Search GitHub and Bioconductor packages on Rdocumentation
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 of alternatives to CRAN package management system (B...
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Package rankings, task view rankings and much more: the Rdocumentation poster
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 such as: What are the 10 most ...
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Coursera course on computational finance with R
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 Professor Eric Zivot (University of W...
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Data analysis the data.table way: introducing DataCamp’s newest course
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 increasing and with good reason. Not o...
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New dplyr course by RStudio and DataCamp! Learn data manipulation interactively
DataCamp just launched its latest interactive course: dplyr. This new course was developed in close collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio’s master instructor. By taking this course, you will be challenged one step at a time to master the essentials about transforming data sets fast and intuitively with the dplyr package. Start the cours...
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How to become a data scientist in 8 easy steps: the infographic
This post was written by the team behind DataCamp, the online interactive learning platform for data science. After being dubbed “sexiest job of the 21st Century” by Harvard Business Review, data scientists have stirred the interest of the general public. Many people are intrigued by this job, namely because the name has an interesting r...
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The data.table Cheat Sheet
The data.table package provides an enhanced version of data.frame that allows you to do blazing fast data manipulations. data.table is being used in different fields such as finance and genomics, and is especially useful for those of you that are working with large data sets (e.g. 1GB to 100GB in RAM). Although its typical syntax structure is ...
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A data.table R tutorial by DataCamp: intro to DT[i, j, by]
This data.table R tutorial explains the basics of the DT[i, j, by] command which is core to the data.table package. If you want to learn more on the data.table package, DataCamp provides an interactive R course on the data.table package. The course has more than 35 interactive R exercises – all taking place in the comfort of your own browser ...
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How to Speak Data Science
Data Science has its own language. So, if you want to have at least a slight chance of surviving in the enterprise world of tomorrow -with its obsessive focus on collecting and analyzing data- you better have started yesterday with learning this terminology. Luckily, and inspired by the “How To Speak Startup” article on TechCrunch, the online...
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