“Choose Your Own Adventure" Analytics On-boarding
Lower the barriers to productivity by employing a “Select your own adventure” approach to on-boarding your new analytics team members.
Awesome Twitter Word Clouds in R
Tap into Twitter data and create custom word clouds that will visualize the conversation in an impactful way. Analysis performed with R and the rtweet and wordcloud2 packages.
Data + Art STEAM Project: Initial Results
An introduction to the Data + Art STEAM project with Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School in Toronto!
Summertime Fun: R Graphs with LaCroixColoR, Magick Animations + More!
A fun summertime blog creating LaCroix themed R graphs using LaCroixColoR & Magick animations
Building a Data Democracy
Data democracy has been a hot topic of late. But what does this really mean? Further, what do we actually need to DO to build a culture of data democracy?
Time Based Heatmaps in R
A tutorial demonstrating how to create time based heatmaps in R. Technologies include: R, Watson Studio and IBM Cloud.
Graphing My Feelings
Graphing my excitement for the IBM Think conference using R Studio hosted on IBM Cloud based Data Science Experience. Graphical coordinates provided by the coordinator site.
Happy International Women's Day!
As a tribute to International Women's Day, I am doing a little analysis on some gender equality among EU countries using #rstats map features and RAWGraphs.io
R Package Install Troubleshooting
A troubleshooting guide to installing R packages. Covers base R upgrades, different repos, typo-proofing and more!
Data Storytelling Using Flourish Studio
A tutorial blog reviewing the art of data storytelling and showing how to use Flourish, a platform for storytelling and visualisation
Data Science Graphs (without the code!)
A tutorial exploring RAW Graphs; a free tool enabling everyone to create high-end, data science style graphs without the code!
Analysis on Google's Best Apps of 2017 List
A look at Google's "Best Apps of 2017" lists. In this tutorial we use screen scraping and a wide variety of visualization techniques. Technologies include: R, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.
Happy Holidays Data Lovers!
A fun holiday post exploring a new R visualization package called alluvial
Predictive Analytics Tutorial: Part 4
Part 4 of 4 in a tutorial showing how to perform end to end predictive analytics to solve your business problem. The tutorial focuses on creating, selecting and implementing predictive models. It uses R notebooks, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.
Predictive Analytics Tutorial: Part 3
Part 3 of 4 in a tutorial showing how to perform end to end predictive analytics to solve your business problem. The tutorial uses R notebooks, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.
Predictive Analytics Tutorial: Part 2
Part 2 of 4 in a tutorial showing how to perform end to end predictive analytics to solve your business problem. The tutorial uses R notebooks, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.
Predictive Analytics Tutorial: Part 1
Part 1 of 4 in a tutorial showing how to perform end to end predictive analytics to solve your business problem. The tutorial uses R notebooks, Data Science Experience and IBM Cloud.
Predictive Analytics Path to Mainstream Adoption
As predictive analytics takes one step closer to mainstream adoption, we explore the concept in detail and break it down into actionable steps.
NPS: Friend or Foe?
A blog exploring the promise vs reality of NPS, alternatives and how to use the metric responsibly.