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Regular expression (also abbreviated to regex) really is a powertool any programmer should know. It was and is one of the things I most liked learning, as it provides you with immediate, godlike powers that can speed up your (data science) workflow tenfold. I’ve covered many regex related topics on this blog already, but thought … Continue reading Curated Regular Expression Resources
I came across this awesome regular expression tool I wanted to share. Debuggex allows you to interactively write, test and visually inspect what your regular expressions match in either Python, JavaScript, or Perl. Read more about regular expressions here, for instance their implementation in R.
A regular expression (regex or regexp for short) is a special text string for describing a search pattern. You can think of regular expressions as wildcards on steroids. You are probably familiar with wildcard notations such as *.txt to find all text files in a file manager. The regex equivalent is .*\.txt$. Last week I posted … Continue reading Regular Expression Crosswords
The following is the first part of my introduction to regular expression (regex), in general, and the use of regex in R, in specific. It is loosely inspired on the swirl() tutorial by Jon Calder. I created it in R Markdown and uploaded it to RPubs, for an easier read. Regular expression A regular expression, regex or regexp … Continue reading Regular Expressions in R – Part 1: Introduction and base R functions
Despite the pandemic, 2020 has been a great year for me. Professionally, I grew into my role as data science product owner. And next to this, I got more and more freelance side gigs. Mostly teaching, but also some consultancy projects. Unfortunately, all my start-up ideas failed miserably again this year, yet I’ll keep trying … Continue reading Reviewing year 4 of paulvanderlaken.com
With only one day remaining in 2019, let’s review the year. 2019 was my third year of blogging and it went by even quicker than the previous two! Personally, it has been a busy year for me: I started a new job, increased my speaking and teaching activities, bought and moved to my new house, … Continue reading Top-19 articles of 2019
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