If there’s a dataset that’s been most used by data scientists / data analysts while they’re learning something or coaching something - it’s either iris (more R users) or titanic (more Python users). iris dataset isn’t most used just because it’s easy accessible but it’...

ggplot2 is go-to R package for anyone who wants to make beautiful static visualizations in R. But most ggplot2 gplots look almost the same and little many data analysts or data scientists care about customizing it, primarily because it’s not very intuitive to do so. That’s where ggplot2 ...

Despite all the memes around Microsoft Excel, Excel is still a powerful tool for quick and fast data transformation, data preprocessing (forget about the date thing 😉 ). This post is my attempt to tell an Excel person how they can replicate some of their most frequently used operation like VLOOKUP (Fuzzy) ...

As much as Google is popular for searching information on the web, Google can also provide information (meta) about those searches. Google Search Insights can be extremely helpful in Marketing Analytics, Market Research, Understanding Customer Demands, Trends and so on. While usual Market Researches or someone interested in Google Search ...

In this post, We’ll learn about {ggeasy} an R package by Jonathan Carroll. The goal of {ggeasy} is to help R programmers make ggplot2 theme customizations with simple-easy English functions. (much easier than playing with theme()) We use dataset generated by {fakir} for this tutorial. Youtube: https://youtu.be/...

The reason I wanted to make this short tutorial is because there are a lot of old tutorial available on Internet to help you make a powerpoint using R. But some time back RStudio made this new option available that makes it extremely easy and simple...

In this post, We’ll learn how to take analyse your Android Smartphone usage data. Steps: Download your MyActivity Data from Google Takeout - https://takeout.google.com/ (after Selecting json format - instead of the default html format) When the download is available, save the zip file and unzip ...

One of the announcements of RStudio conf 2020 that caught my eyes is a brand new package {bootstraplib} - https://github.com/rstudio/bootstraplib/ . It’s another open-source contribution from RStudio (a PBC). {bootstraplib} basically provides tools for theming shiny and rmarkdown from R via Bootstrap (3 or 4) Sass. If you’re ...

Bar Race Animation Charts have started going Viral on Social Media leaving a lot of Data Enthusiasts wondering how are these Bar Race Animation Charts made. The objective of this post is to explain how to build such Bar Race Animation Charts using R — R with the power of versatile ...

One of the problems that we usually face with ggplot is that rearranging the bars in ascending or descending order. If that problem is solved using reorder() or fct_reorder(), the next problem is when we have facets and ordering bars within each facet. Recently I came acrosss this function ...

Kannada MNIST dataset is another MNIST-type Digits dataset for Kannada (Indian) Language. All details of the dataset curation has been captured in the paper titled: “Kannada-MNIST: A new handwritten digits dataset for the Kannada language.” by Vinay Uday Prabhu. The github repo of the author can be found here. The ...