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11 New Books added to Big Book of R

February 5, 2022 | Oscar

06 February 2022 Welcome to a very special edition of Big Book of R updates. For the past week, my kid has been asking to help me out with Big Book of R and created this amazing featured image. It’s an outer-space theme complete with a space-monkey (holding a banana) … The ...
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Tips for building a Twitter bot with R and Github Actions

January 16, 2022 | Oscar

16 January 2022 A couple of weeks ago I created my very first twitter bot which was immensely satisfying. It was also quite a frustrating process and this post should save you a lot of frustration :). You can view the code in the github repo. I can’t give enough … The post ...
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10 New books added to Big Book of R

January 14, 2022 | Oscar

14 January 2022 We’re off to a great start (book wise!) for 2022. Here’s 10 new additions to Big Book of R. Quite a few more paid versions of books in this round and they look good. Thanks to Burak Aydin, Manika Lamba, Mauricio Vargas Sepúlveda, Samrit Pramanik , Kurt … The post 10 ... [Read more...]

A new way to discover R Programming books!

January 9, 2022 | Oscar

With over 250 books (and counting) in the Big Book of R collection, you could easily overlook a lot of useful ones. Sometimes you see a book and think “Hey that’ll be pretty useful if I ever work on [subject]” but when that time comes you’ve completely forgotten about ... [Read more...]

How to google R stuff

December 16, 2021 | Oscar

I love a lot about R except that its name is not great for SEO. When you’re very new to R it can be a bit hard to google solutions to your problems. In learning any new skill or tool it’s difficult to know what to google in ...
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Top 21 #RStats tweets of 2021

December 13, 2021 | Oscar

13 December 2021 The R Community has been as active as ever on Twitter during 2021. Here’s a selection of the top 21 tweets of the year. Not on Twitter and don’t know where to start? Don’t worry! I co-authored the free book Twitter for R programmers with Veerle van … The ...
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9 new books added to Big Book of R

December 5, 2021 | Oscar

06 December 2021 Every time I update Big Book of R I’m blown away by how much good stuff is out there! In this release there’s 9 new books which covers the widest range of topics of any release to date :). Thanks to Sivuyile Nzimeni for one of the … The post 9 ... [Read more...]

Mistakes: you’ll make a few

September 21, 2021 | Oscar

Running into errors and warnings is a completely normal part of programming – even the best of the best can count on it happening daily! Getting comfortable with what the errors mean and how to find the solution is part of your learning journey. Here’s a checklist (pdf /png) with … ...
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Another 9 R books added to BigBookofR

September 21, 2021 | Oscar

The collection of R books at BigBookofR continues to grow! Thanks to @erictleaungu , @StanLazic, @rohmanoabdur, @preposterior, @lago67522285 and @lfvasconcelos_ for their contributions. Computing for the social sciences By Dr. Benjamin Soltoff The goal of this course is to teach you basic computational skills and provide you with the means … The ...
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Another 9 R books added to BigBookofR

September 12, 2021 | Oscar

The collection of R books at BigBookofR continues to grow! Thanks to @erictleaungu , @StanLazic, @rohmanoabdur, @preposterior, @lago67522285 and @lfvasconcelos_ for their contributions. Computing for the social sciences By Dr. Benjamin Soltoff The goal of this course is to teach you basic computational skills and provideyou with the means to … The ... [Read more...]

Mistakes: You’ll make a few

September 5, 2021 | Oscar

Running into errors and warnings is a completely normal part of programming – even the best of the best can count on it happening daily! Getting comfortable with what the errors mean and how to find the solution is part of your learning journey. Here’s a checklist (pdf /jpg) with … ...
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10 new books added to Big Book of R

July 20, 2021 | Oscar

21 July 2021 In this post I’m highlighting 10 new books added to Big Book of R. Thank you to the authors for writing them and thanks to R Posts you might have missed who I got a bunch of these from. Hiring Data Scientists and Machine Learning Engineers Roy … The post 10 ...
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9 new R books added ???

June 18, 2021 | Oscar

This is the first time I’m writing up a blog post to summarise new books that have been added to Big Book Of R. I’ll keep doing so in future! A quick thank you to @LeganaFingerfut for adding R for Health Data Science, and to @RCoderWeb for adding ...
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Big Book of R has over 200 books!

May 30, 2021 | Oscar

Way back in August 2020, I launched Big Book of R, a collection of free (and some paid) R programming books organised by categories like Geospatial, Statistics, Packages and many more. What started off as a 100 book collection has now grown to over 200 :D! Anyway, I felt was … The post Big ...
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A real-world, messy dataset to practice on

April 28, 2021 | Oscar

At some point you may be looking for a “real world” dataset to practice analysis on or to give to students. The value of such data is that it gives analysts a chance to develop skills they need for their work, but are hard to master when given “clean” datasets, … ...
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Hiring a data analyst

March 10, 2021 | Oscar

In late 2020 I was hiring for a data analyst role. We were looking for someone with domain expertise, R and some SQL if possible. That alone is a long wishlist ;). Originally this post started as a twitter thread which you can find a link to at the end. These … The ...
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First thoughts on a community-driven R learning platform

August 14, 2020 | Oscar

I’ve been mulling over some things. I hope that by sharing them, it will spark some inspiration for others. I think R needs a good, comprehensive and curated learning platform. Ever since you-know-who did you-know-what and then the leadership proceeded to shoot themselves in both feet, and after running ...
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A roadmap for getting started with R

May 5, 2020 | Oscar

Some folks at work expressed an interest in how to get started learning R. There are lots of resources out there, but I thought I’d share with you what I shared with them as a pathway that I followed that’s working out well for me. You don’t ...
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