Publications by DataCamp Blog
New Course: Joining Data in R with dplyr
We just launched Joining Data in R with dplyr taught by Garrett Grolemund, the author of Hands-On Programming with R and R for Data Science from O’Reilly Media. This course builds on what you learned in Data Manipulation in R with dplyr by showing you how to combine data sets with dplyr’s two table verbs. In the real world,...
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Top 5 R Package Maintainers
The R Community is powered by open course contributions from a wide variety of individuals. Anyone can create and distribute R packages that benefit the R community and make it easier for R users all over the world to work with their code. Some R users, however, take it to the next level. In this post, we’ll highlight the five most active pac...
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DataChats: An interview with Charlotte Wickham
Hey R fans! We’ve just released a new episode of DataCamp’s DataChats video series. In this third episode, we interview Charlotte Wickham. Charlotte is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at Oregon State University and an avid R programmer with a passion for teaching. She talks us through her first exposure to R, why a t...
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New: Italian and German Translations of Introduction to R
The team here at DataCamp is thrilled to announce that we now offer free Italian (thanks to Quantide) and German (thanks to eoda) translations of our most popular course, Introduction to R. Best of all, the courses are free as a part of our open course offering! By using in-browser coding challenges you will experiment with the different aspects...
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An Interview With David Robinson, Data Scientist at Stack Overflow
Hey R fans! A new episode of DataCamp’s DataChats video series is out! In this episode, we interview David Robinson. David is a Data Scientist at Stack Overflow and well known for his blog Variance Explained. He talks about his passion for blogging, the importance of building a data science portfolio, why you should learn SQL and much more. ...
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New Course: Data Visualization in R
We just launched Data Visualization in R taught by Ronald Pearson! R supports four different graphics systems: base graphics, grid graphics, lattice graphics, and ggplot2. Base graphics is the default graphics system in R, the easiest of the four systems to learn to use and provides a wide variety of useful tools, especially for exploratory grap...
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An Interview With Ron Pearson, author of Data Visualization in R
Hey R fans! A new episode of DataCamp’s DataChats video series is out! In this episode, we interview Ronald Pearson. Ron holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from M.I.T. and has written or co-written five books. Furthermore, he is the author and maintainer of the GoodmanKruskal R package, and one of the authors of the...
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New Course: Working with Geospatial Data in R
Where should you buy a house to get the most value for your money? Your first step might be to make a map, but spatial data can be intimidating in R because of the complicated objects it often lives in. Our new course Working with Geospatial Data in R taught by Charlotte Wickham will introduce you to spatial data by starting with objects you alr...
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DataCamp’s 2017 Conference Guide
2017 is bound to be an exciting year in Data Science. Here’s DataCamp’s list of conferences that we’re most excited about in the new year. Whether you’re an R user, a Python hacker, or just a general data science fan – you’re sure to find a great conference to attend next year on this list! Open Data Science Conference (...
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An Interview With Jo Hardin, author of Foundations of Inference
Hey R fans! A new episode of DataCamp’s DataChats video series is out! In this episode, we interview Jo Hardin. Jo is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College with many years of R experience. She has a pure passion for education and has been working on the ASA’s undergraduate curriculum guidelines where she strongly advocated the infu...
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