12 March 2016 - In our first assignment, we’re required to pick a data source that we’ll use in our upcoming assignments and think about the kind of analyses we’d like to do with it.
12 March 2016 - I was initially introduced to R by Nathan Yau’s Visualize This, but subsequently I learned a lot about R through some of the courses in Brian Caffo, Roger Peng and Jeff Leek’s Data Science Specialization at Coursera. In fact, the course was a reason for me to postpone switching from R to Python.
6 March 2016 - An article on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog describes how researchers managed to carry out opinion polls on executions in Bahrain, «one of the most difficult countries in the region for such sensitive research». In order to overcome the difficulties encountered, they ran two ‘innovative surveys’ in partnership with research company RIWI.
12 February 2016 - Yesterday, stats guru Jeff Leek confessed the ultimate unpopular opinion in data science: «I don’t use ggplot2 and I get nervous when other people do» (if you haven’t a clue what this is about, you may want to skip this post altogether). His confession met with ridicule, more riducule, and an occasional «oh my god I thought I was the only one!».