Publications by DataCamp Blog
R and education: a survey on the use of R in education
Main takeaways from the survey on R in education There is a need to train students in R since a large majority of respondents that use R professionally expect its market share to further increase. Large interest from both academics and students in online interactive R and statistics courses. Highest interest in free courses and only small fracti...
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Search r documentation and manuals with Rdocumentation
Last week, I was working on an educational R project when I needed to consult the help files of different R packages and functions online. After doing some Google searches, I realized that finding an easy-to-use tool was not as simple as I had expected. The closest that I got were the websites Inside-R and R search, but as a user it wasn’t as �...
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Building DataMind: FREE Online Interactive Learning Platform for R
DataMind is the first free online Interactive Learning Platform for R. Through an in-browser coding environment we offer exercise-based learning-by-doing. Our goal is to build a fun learning experience for data analysis and R, while allowing everyone to create courses! You can check out an early stage beta version at www.DataMind.org !With Dat...
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R in the cloud: R-Fiddle, an online playground for R code
www.R-fiddle.org is an early stage beta that provides you with a free and powerful environment to write, run and share R-code right inside your browser. It even offers the option to include packages so you can really run R in the cloud. Since a couple of days it’s gaining more and more traction, and was mentioned on the frontpage of Hacker Ne...
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Interactive R courses: free finance and data science courses
We’re happy to announce that as of today, DataCamp has added two new and free online interactive R courses to its curriculum: ‘Data Analysis and Statistical Inference‘ and ‘Introduction to Computational Finance‘. These will be the biggest DataCamp R courses to date, so we’re very excited to find out what this will give.We develope...
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Quandl Tutorial: learn to use quandl in R
Quandl is a “wikipedia” for numerical data that allows you to rapidly search through 8 million ready-to-use data sets. At DataCamp, we created a free Quandl Tutorial on how to use the corresponding R package to access Quandl data from within R. As every real world data analyst knows, finding and formatting numerical data for analysi...
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R in the cloud: R-fiddle of the Week
Now that our ‘Learning R’ -series is coming to an end (for those who have missed it, have a look at our Twitter or Facebook ), it is time to announce the start of a new series : R-fiddle of the Week. Every week, we will share an R-fiddle link that contains the code of some popular or well liked R blog posts. Since R-fiddle allows you to run...
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Complete data.table tutorial: Data analysis the data.table way
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 on the data.table tutorial… The popularity of the data.table package is increasing a...
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New Course! A hands-on introduction to statistics with R by A. Conway (Princeton University)
The best way to learn is at your own pace. Combining the interactive R learning environment of DataCamp and the expertise of Prof. Conway of Princeton, we offer you an extensive online course on introductory statistics with R. Start learning now…Whether you are a professional using statistics in your job, an academic wanting a refresher on sp...
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Complete dplyr tutorial for data analytics and data manipulation in R
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 dplyr tutorial, 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 t...
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