Great R packages for data import, wrangling, and visualization
Here are my go-to R packages — in a handy searchable table.
R community blasts DataCamp response to exec's 'inappropriate behavior'
RStudio, satRdays, and some instructors themselves are cutting ties with the online education company because they say DataCamp's response to the incident has been inadequate.
Google will shut down Fusion Tables
After more than a decade in service, Google's easy-to-use cloud visualization service is being shuttered.
Useful R functions you might not know
One of the best way to find cool, new-to-you R functions is to see what other useRs have uncovered. Here are some of mine -- and yours.
RStudio cloud service in the works?
An official RStudio cloud service appears to be under development
R Consortium survey seeks input from R users
Have opinions about R? The Consortium wants to hear from you.
RStudio makes another high-profile hire
After Jenny Bryan and Max Kuhn joined the company last fall, Hadley Wickham told me he didn't plan to add to his team "in the near future." It looks like the near future has passed.
Quick hands-on: Tableau adds shapefile, KML & GeoJSON imports for custom maps
You can now use your own geospatial files to create custom choropleth maps in Tableau.
Esri to kick off GIS DevSummit with live stream, new resources
The conference is aimed at developers who want to do robust geographical analysis and add geospatial capabilities to their apps.
Mapping in R just got a whole lot easier
Thanks to the R simple features project and packages like tmaps that support it, choropleth maps are now a breeze to create with R. I'll walk you through mapping median U.S. wages for IT managers. And don't miss the last step: A tiny...
Best tips & takeaways from RStudio Conference
I'll be sharing the most interesting things I hear, see and learn at this week's big R event.
What's up with RStudio's 2 high-profile hires?
I talk to Chief Scientist and R 'tidyverse' guru Hadley Wickham to find out.
Election night: Whoa, was I was wrong
Data seemed so clearly pointing to one result in last night's presidential election. But it wasn't.
R resources for Election Night
Want to geek out with data as the returns come in? Here are some ideas.
Why I won't be in suspense this presidential election night (in tweets)
I'm with Sam Wang: There's drama, and then there's data.
Microsoft adds R data visualizations without R to Power BI
You can now use some R visuals without actually knowing R
Political data reporting malpractice
The only Presidential polling that matters is the Electoral College. But that's not what's being reported in too many media stories in an effort to hype a race as being close.
MicroStrategy Desktop BI software now free
Today's announcement adds to the no-cost self-service BI landscape that include Tableau Public, Microsoft Power BI and some versions of Qlik, among others.
Google Sheets Explore: A work in progress
I take Google Sheets' new natural-language queries for a test drive. Here's what I found.
IBM, Cloudera join RStudio to create R interface to Apache Spark
R users can now use the popular dplyr package to tap into Apache Spark big data.
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