Tag: R

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Becoming a Data Scientist If you are interested to become a data scientist, the following free resources and books would be very helpful. Free books using R These and other books aan be accessed for free on bookdown.org (Note: bookdown is the software used to edit them.) Free books on using Python Free books on …

R and Python workshops โ€“ Fall 2022

Summary Check the Calendar listing for data analysis workshops links and registration forms. Below are workshop dates for SSCC, Madison chapter of Software Carpentry, and Steenbock Library series. Social Science Computing Cooperative (SSCC) The table below shows only the R and Python courses. See complete listing at https://sscc.wisc.edu/sscc_jsp/training/  Title Date Time Instructor Introduction to Python …

w3schools code tutorials

w3schools: Learn to Code On the w3schools site I was surprised to find a lot more than informational tutorial for Web coding such as CSS or PHP.  The site offers a large number of well organized,  self-paced tutorials on a much larger scale. Coding languages Here are a few that I find particularly useful to …

R & Python workshops – Winter 2022

Summary (Free) Steenbock Library: R and python series (Free) SSCC (Social Science Computing Cooperative): SSCC Training Classes (low cost for UW) Software Carpentry: Software Carpentry @ UWโ€“Madison Low cost registration ends January 5, 2022 See also the general Calendar listing . Library workshops Note: these workshops fill-in fast… Individual workshop descriptions and instructors list. Registration required.  …

Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown โ€“ Episode 4. Reproducible reports

The message The essential message is this: stop using Copy/Paste from one program to another (e.g. a chart from Excel to Word) as this is a manual process that is not reproducible and can easily get out of sync if new data need to be incorporated and the report reconstructed anew. The solution is to …

Data Analysis Workshops Winter 2021

SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free "R" and "Python" workshops (Steenbock Library.) "Introduction to R with RStudio," "Data Wrangling in R" (SSCC - Social Science Computing Cooperative.) "Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell," "Data Management with SQL," "R: introduction / visualization / reports" (Software Carpentry throughย UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)

Strings as factors in R

Factors in R I recently mentioned the important default change that occurred with the release of the latest version of R (version 4.0.3) in a post titled  Default preference reversal in R and how that can impact current code. Recently I had 2 more encounters with this notion and I thought I’d write here how …

Data Analysis Workshops Fall 2020

SUMMARY: Check calendar for Free "R" and "Python" workshops (Steenbock Library.) "Introduction to R with RStudio," "Data Wrangling in R" (SSCC - Social Science Computing Cooperative.) "Automating Tasks with the Unix Shell," "Data Management with SQL," "Introduction to Docker" (Software Carpentry throughย UW-Madison Data Science (fees apply).)

R courses and tutorials. Classic, Tidyverse, Data Wrangling, ggplot2

This is a list of R material that I found online that I think can be useful as reference or as working material to learn R / RStudio / Mardkown. I’ll try to separate the links between “Classic” and “Tidyverse” versions, but that is not always possible… “Tidyverse” would include plotting with ggplot2 R package which …

Bioinformatics – which computer language should I learn first?

In the past years I have focused on what seemed to be the most useful bioinformatics tools for biologists that need to analyze data with software that does not have a graphical interface. The final result is that I created tutorials for bash, R and python. It seems that others agree, and I think this youtube …