A look at Google's "Best Apps of 2017" lists.  In this tutorial we use screen scraping and a wide variety of visualization techniques.  Technologies include: R, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.

Advertising adstock is the carry-over effect of some advertisement to a consumer over time. Finding the decay rate or half-life of advertising is a common question of interest to many advertisers to determine how effective advertising builds the awareness of their brand, and how that awareness decays over time. Adstock ...

I wanted to write a post about a couple of handy functions in R that don’t always get the recognition they deserve. This article will talk about a few functions that form part of R’s core functional programming capabilities. R has thousands of functions, so this is just ...

Often I use R to handle large datasets, analyze the data and filter out the data I don’t need. When all this is done, I usually use write.csv() to print my data off and reopen it in Google Sheets. My workflow would look something like this: full_data

(You can find all R⁶ posts here) A Twitter discussion: I'm going to keep my eyes out for this one! Would love to have an easy way to embed tweets in Rmd talks!— Jeff Hollister (@jhollist) December 30, 2017 that spawned from Maëlle’s recent look-back post turned into a quick ...

@drsimonj here with five simple tricks I find myself sharing all the time with fellow R users to improve their code! This post was originally published on DataCamp’s community as one of their top 10 articles in 2017  1. More fun to sequence from 1 Next time you use the colon operator to ...

2017 is nearly at an end. We humans seem to need these cycles to help us on our path forward and have, throughout history, used these annual demarcation points as a time of reflection of what was, what is an what shall come next. To that end, I decided it was ...

Census nuts/bolts New Mexico & the US Some macro-exploration A simple model Some final notes References In this post we investigate Spanish language maintenance within Hispanic communities in the US utilizing data from the US Census. Spanish language maintenance refers to the rate at which Hispanics within a given community ...

Introduction Last few months I’ve gained some weight so I’m curious if analytics can give insight and show opportunities to get my BMI to normal weight. As a first step, an inquiry into a hypothesis about calories vs. sleep. Bottom line up fr...

Blogging and social media for introverts - How to spot an introvert You may have seen David Robinson’s recent post encouraging R users to start blogging. Some folk will willingly act on this advice, and others won’t. For those that won...

Blogging and social media for introverts - How to spot an introvert You may have seen David Robinson’s recent post encouraging R users to start blogging. Some folk will willingly act on this advice, and others won’t. For those that won...

You’ve probably seen people posting their #Best9of2017, primarily on Instagram I’d say. I’m not an Instagram user, although I do have an account to spy on my younger sister and cousins, so I don’t even have 9 Instagram posts in total but I do l...