This week we cover dplyr, the grammar of data. Dplyr is complicated at first but the payoff is worth the effort. dplyr allows for easy manipulation of data and easy to read code. It can be combined ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

We list the best IDE for Python, to make it simple and easy for programmers to manage their Python code with a selection of specialist tools. An Integrated Development Environment (IDE) allows you to ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Data visualization is the practice of organizing and presenting data such that anybody, regardless of technical background, can understand its significance and draw conclusions from it. Due to ...

JooYoung Seo, assistant professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, has been awarded a $649,921 Early Career Development grant from the Institute of ...

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