Edward tufte keyNoTe Edward Tufte will be kicking off PLOTCON NYC this year with his keynote talk. Edward is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Statistics, and Computer Science at Yale University. He wrote, designed, and self-published 4 classic books on data visualization including, “The Visual Display of Quantitative Information.” The New York Times described ET Read more »

A new online textbook, Data Visualization for Social Science, will teach you everything you need to know about creating beautiful and elegant data visualizations using the ggplot2 package and...Read more »

In the last set of exercises , you have seen the basic functionalities of RevoScaleR .In this exercise set we will explore RevoScaleR further. get the Credit card fraud...Read more »

Then felt I like some watcher of the skies  When a new planet swims into his ken;  Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes  He star’d at the...Read more »

The R package ecosystem now contains more than 10K packages, and several flagship packages belong under the rOpenSci suite. Some of these are: magick for image manipulation, plotly for...Read more »

This post explains how to use R to automatically write and send emails based on automatically computed analyses (yep, everything automated). This means that when analysis changes or is...Read more »

Today I’m excited to announce a new R package, blogdown, to help you create general-purpose (static) websites with R Markdown. The first version of blogdown is available on CRAN...Read more »

This is common case when working with data that your source is a remote database. Usual ways to cope this when using R is either to load all the...Read more »

Learning Social Media Analytics with R

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Statistics are often taught in school by and for people who like Mathematics. As a consequence, in those class emphasis is put on leaning equations, solving calculus problems and...Read more »