Data Visualization in R A couple of weeks ago, someone on Twitter asked how to change the shape of the circle data points on a plot in R. This made me realize that while I usually change size or color … Continue reading Data Point Shapes and Colors with ggplot2
Do you spend a lot of time writing the same code over and over again while working on your data science projects? Well, learning to turn your long chunks of code into a simple reusable function may be exactly what … Continue reading Creating a Function in R
Even in the time of COVID-19, Meetups are still happening virtually! Last week I tuned into Dataiku‘s talk on “Recommender Systems and Deep Models at Etsy” presented by Moumita Bhattacharya, Senior Data Scientist at Etsy. This was an introduction to … Continue reading Recommender Systems at Etsy
How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It’s Making the World a Weirder Place The perfect book for those looking for an introduction to Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). Author Janelle Shane explains how AI works, when it works … Continue reading You Look Like A Thing And I Love You
I recently learned about TF-IDF as a measure of a words importance to a document and thought it would be an interesting idea to investigate with keywords in SEO. While many professionals have discounted TF-IDF as an effective tool for … Continue reading TF-IDF for SEO with R
I recently took DataCamp’s Introduction to Tableau course, and I have never experienced an easier way to visualize data. Tableau is a business intelligence and analytics software used by companies world-wide to clean data, explore and analyze data in worksheets … Continue reading Tableau Dashboard: Coronavirus Map
Last week’s R-Ladies NYC Meetup was one focused on productivity and presentability. The evening consisted of two talks, both by Biostaticians of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, with Jessica talking about her timetrackR Shiny app and Margie talking about the … Continue reading R-Ladies NYC: timetrackR and {gtsummary}
Over the past couple of months, I was a student of MIT’s online Digital Marketing Analytics course. As an SEO, I thought it was important to understand the impact that all digital channels have on each other and how when … Continue reading MIT: Digital Marketing Analytics
Last week, I attended a Dataiku screening of “Data Science Pioneers,” a documentary about data science and its role in our evolving technological society. The documentary brought to light many valid points regarding society’s perspective of data science, the field … Continue reading Data Science Pioneers: Conquering the Next Frontier
Text Sentiment Analysis in R Today, we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr., his achievements as a civil rights leader and his fight against racial segregation and racism in the United States. There is no doubt that MLK … Continue reading Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
