Publications by DataCamp Blog
DataCamp talks @user2015aalborg
The team behind DataCamp is getting ready for its third useR! attendance in as many years. This year we will contribute two talks. One on teaching R in class, and another on our testwhat package. Talk One: Teaching R in (an Online) ClassToday, over 145,000 people have started a course on DataCamp. In this talk we will present some of our latest ...
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R tutorials and courses on OpenIntro
DataCamp first to offer free interactive R tutorials and courses via the OpenIntro platform.In one week, the ten-week Coursera course on Data Analysis and Statistical Inference by prof. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel of Duke University comes to an end. At DataCamp it was one of our first experiences providing interactive R exercises on a large scale,...
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New Course: Intermediate R Programming Training Course
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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Intro to Statistics with R Series
We are proud to announce we have made some huge updates to our Intro to Statistics with R series. Over 100 challenges and more than 30 videos are redesigned from scratch. Our intro to statistics with R courses have always been some of our most popular. Over 30,000 (!) students have taken this series and provided us with amazing feedback on how w...
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R, Yelp and the Search for Good Indian Food – An Open Course
New Free Course by Springboard and DataCamp Are all Yelp restaurant reviews created equal? Should we place greater trust in reviews made by people who know the cuisine well? How about reviews of ethnic restaurants by people of that ethnicity or reviews by seasoned Yelpers? We may not be able to find the perfect restaurant all the time, but leave ...
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New R course on Coursera: Data Analysis & Statistical Inference
This week a new session of Data Analysis and Statistical Inference, taught by Doctor Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel from Duke university, has started on Coursera. Just like with the previous runs, all labs take place in DataCamp’s interactive learning environment.Throughout the course, you will learn how to collect, analyze, and use data to make infere...
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Submission Correctness Testing in DataCamp DataCamp (Part I)
This blog post will walk you through some basic examples of building Submission Correctness Tests (SCTs) so that you can begin to create your own interactive courses on DataCamp. Together we will walk through six basic functions and see how they work. You will be able to see how to write SCTs in the R code chunks and follow along in the interacti...
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New Course: R Data Visualization with ggplot2 – Part 1
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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Who wants to disrupt R training and R education?
Using EdTech applications as an academic, R trainer or training company is no longer a unique selling proposition, but a must-have commodity. In this post, we introduce the new DataCamp course creation tools for academics, trainers and enterprises, and make a call to those who are interested in using these tools for R training and R education....
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New Course: R Data Visualization with ggplot2 – Part 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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