“There are patterns because we try to find them. A desperate attempt at order because we can’t face the terror that it might all be random.” —Lauren Beukes, The Shining Girls Why R? R is a powerful programming language a...

“Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way.” — Hadley Wickham, Chief Scientist at RStudio This article will try to show how we can link the structure of a dataset to it’s meaning and make sure the data is showing what ...

Insert Lead paragraph here. Introduction In this article I would like to take a look at some coding principles and best practices and discuss what can help you, as a data analyst, write and maintain code that can be easily shared and understood by other analysts or yourself, when you ...

Recently I found myself with some free time on my hands so I decided to learn a new skill, or at least start learning. So I thought to myself, what would be a good skill that would help me as a data analyst or would have helped me in the ...

Countless times, while working on a project I had to copy a file and save it with a suffix like _v1, _v2 or _my_name. It was almost always because the file was saved on a shared drive, multiple people were working on it and som...