After several years of proscrastinating, the inevitable finally happened: Three months ago, I committed to learning Python! I must say that getting started was not easy. One afternoon three months ago, I sat down, motivated to get started. Obviously, the first step was to download and install Python as well as something to write actual…
Category: tools
An Introduction to Docker for R Users, by Colin Fay
In this awesome 8-minute read, R-progidy Colin Fay explains in laymen’s terms what Docker images, Docker containers, and Volumes are; what Rocker is; and how to set up a Docker container with an R image and run code on it: On your machine, you’re going to need two things: images, and containers. Images are the definition…
Simulate Datasets with DrawData.xyz
Vincent Warmerdam shared his new tool to quickly simulate artificial datasets: http://www.drawdata.xyz. The drawdata.xyz tool allows you to easily create your own line- and scatter-plot with different groups of datapoints following specific x-y patterns. After drawing your data, you can just click to export your new dataset to csv or json format. x y 106.04…
Learn Programming Project-Based: Build-Your-Own-X
Last week, this interesting reddit thread was filled with overviews for cool projects that may help you learn a programming language. The top entries are: Build Your Own X, by Dani Stefanovic Project-based Learning, by Tu Tran Projects from Scratch, by Algory L. Project-based Tutorials in C, by Robby Awesome DIY Software, by Cameron Eagans…
Northstar: The interactive, drag-and-drop data science platform by MIT
MIT researchers have spent years developing the new drag-and-drop analytics tools they call Northstar. Northstar is an interactive data science platform that rethinks how people interact with data. It empowers users without programming experience, background in statistics or machine learning expertise to explore and mine data through an intuitive user interface, and effortlessly build, analyze,…
Pimp my RMD: Tips for R Markdown – by Yan Holtz
R markdown creates interactive reports from R code, including interactive reports, documents, dashboards, presentations, and even books. Have a look at this awesome gallery of R markdown examples. Yan Holtz recently created a neat little overview of handy R Markdown tips and tricks that improve the appearance of output documents. He dubbed this overview Pimp my RMD….
Google Fonts: 915 free font families
Looking for a custom typeface to use in your data visualizations? Google Fonts is an awesome databank of nearly a thousands font families you can access, download, and use for free. If you’re into design, the website includes a blog featuring articles on font design. Google Fonts among others provided the font for my dissertation…
Debuggex: A regular expression testing tool
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.
Papers with Code: State-of-the-Art
OK, this is a really great find! The website PapersWithCode.com lists all scientific publications of which the codes are open-sourced on GitHub. Moreover, you can sort these papers by the stars they accumulated on Github over the past days. The authors, @rbstojnic and @rosstaylor90, just made this in their spare time. Thank you, sirs! Papers with Code allows you to quickly…
