Publications by DataCamp Blog
ggvis tutorial: become a data visualization expert with RStudio
The latest interactive course in the RStudio track is now available on DataCamp: ggvis tutorial. The first part of the tutorial is available for free, so everyone can now learn interactively how to start creating stunning ggvis data visualizations in R. All courses in the RStudio track are self-paced, and combine challenging interactive exer...
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R Markdown Tutorial by RStudio and DataCamp
In collaboration with Garrett Grolemund, RStudio’s teaching specialist, DataCamp has developed a new interactive course to facilitate reproducible reporting of your R analyses. R Markdown enables you to generate reports straight from your R code, documenting your works as an HTML, pdf or Microsoft document. This course is part of DataCamp’s ...
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New online R tutorial by DataCamp: Intermediate R programming
Today the course creation team at DataCamp released a new online R tutorial called Intermediate R. It is the sequel to our infamous Introduction to R tutorial that has been taken by over 60,000 R enthusiasts. This new tutorial combines short videos with in-browser coding exercises to increase your R knowledge even more.Start the new Intermediat...
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New Tutorial Launched: Introduction to Machine Learning
In DataCamp’s brand new course, Introduction to Machine Learning with R, you’ll learn all about the most widely used machine learning techniques such as classification, regression and clustering. Whether you want to build your personal recommendation engine, become better at picking stocks, or develop your own self-driving car, machine lear...
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Learn R interactively with our new Introduction to R tutorial
At DataCamp we are obsessed with how we can make our R courses and learning technology better. As a result, we’re continuously innovating and nothing stays the same for very long.Today, we’re proud to announce we’ve made some huge updates to our free Introduction to R tutorial. It’s our most popular course, taken by over 90,00...
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How To Import Data Into R – New Course
Importing your data into R to start your analyses: it should be the easiest step. Unfortunately, this is almost never the case. Data is stored in all sorts of formats, ranging from from flat files to other statistical software files to databases and web data. A skilled data scientist knows which techniques to use to in order to proceed with the a...
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The Easiest Way to Learn ggplot2
Learn how to produce meaningful and beautiful data visualizations with DataCamp’s ggplot2 course series. Be introduced to the principles of good visualizations and the grammar of graphics plotting concept implemented in the ggplot2 package. Learn yourself how to make complex exploratory plots, and be able to make a custom plotting function to ...
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The Easiest Way to Learn ggplot2 (2)
In our second course on ggplot2 “Data Visualization with ggplot2 (2)”, you will take the step from exploratory to explanatory data visualization. In five chapters, you’ll get to know more ggplot layers and tools needed to create excellent visuals that can be used in many different cases. Begin learning Data Visualization with ggplot2 intera...
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R Documentation and R Manuals: Github and Bioconductor technicalities | RDocumentation
In our last blog post we announced the addition of GitHub and Bioconductor R documentation and R manuals to Rdocumentation. For the more technical amongst you, I’ll give a short, high-level description of what’s under the hood of Rdocumentation. Along with that, I’ll zoom in on some of the challenges that I encountered while adding GitHu...
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Case Study: DataCamp, dplyr, and blended learning
Editorial Note: This is a guest blog post by Professor Matthew J. Salganik (Princeton University) in which he describes his experiences using the DataCamp interactive learning platform for blended learning. The article was first published on Wheels on the Bus. Want to use DataCamp in your class as well? Contact us via [email protected].DataCa...
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