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Technologies worth learning for data science
As a complement to my note on R as a data science language, this note lists ten other technologies that you might want to learn to use, or at least monitor, if you are interested in learning data science. Communication Git is a concurrent versioning system that is easy to use through platforms like GitHub or GitLab. It is the best tool that I kn...
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R as a data science language
The R language is a ‘DSL’ – a domain-specific language. The domain that it deals with, however, is not well-defined. In this note, I call R a “data science language” and link to a few resources that make the point better than I could. R as a domain-specific language A few years ago, John D. Cook gave a presentation called “The R Langu...
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More components of the R ecosystem
This note lists a few of the organizations that are pushing the R language forward, as of early 2017. R is a happy language right now. Historically, the R Project for Statistical Computing has been supported by the R Foundation since its inception in 2002. It has laid down some of the most important building blocks of the R ecosystem, including,...
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More components of the R ecosystem
This note lists a few of the organizations that are pushing the R language forward, as of early 2017. R is happy language right now. Historically, the R Project for Statistical Computing has been supported by the R Foundation since its inception in 2002. It has laid down some of the most important building blocks of the R ecosystem, including, o...
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Asking R questions
This note lists a few places where one can ask R-related questions and get an answer, usually in no more than a few hours. Why Anyone who has learnt a programming language has a history of questions that they have asked to: themselves – usually followed by a lot of documentation reading others, offline – hence the benefits of research labs a...
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Some thoughts about the R language survey
The only point of this note is to invite you to fill in the R language survey launched by the R Consortium earlier this month. The official announcement of the survey reads: Please take the survey yourself and help us spread the word on social media, by word of mouth, and any other way you can think of. The survey will be live until September 1...
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Some thoughts about the R language survey
The only point of this note is to invite you to fill in the R language survey launched by the R Consortium earlier this month. The official announcement of the survey reads: Please take the survey yourself and help us spread the word on social media, by word of mouth, and any other way you can think of. The survey will be live until September 1...
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Asking R questions
This note lists a few places where one can ask R-related questions and get an answer, usually in no more than a few hours. Why Anyone who has learnt a programming language has a history of questions that they have asked to: themselves – usually followed by a lot of documentation reading others, offline – hence the benefits of research labs a...
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Stata 16, as seen from R
This note takes a look at some of the new features in Stata 16, which was released this month, and compares those to their R equivalents. Some personal background For background, Stata is the first statistical software that I learnt in depth. I have since transitioned to R but still use Stata for teaching purposes, to check some models that I kn...
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useR! 2019 and R for French users
This note celebrates useR! 2019 in Toulouse by listing a few links about R conferences in France and some resources for French R users. My Twitter feed is currently offering me lots of links to slides that are being presented at useR! 2019 in Toulouse. The hashtag is #useR2019, and you can get most of the material through GitHub, where someone ha...
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