Ok, this is not Data Science. This is just for fun. I have to admit, I tend to mix up things. Here I am mixing up the German class I am taking with one of the visualizations that I prefer, the wordcloud. Not because it conveys a message about data, in this case is just …
I was using my own article “A R kernel in IPython notebook: Jupyter“, to install both Jupyter and the IRKernel on a small ASUS Eee PC Seashell 12” laptop that I use when we are on holidays. This runs Kubuntu, as most of the PCs in my household. Unfortunately the instructions I provided in July …
I have a new idol. When I discovered this web site, thanks to the referral in the “Getting and Cleaning Data” MOOC on Coursera, little did I know about the gapminder.org web site, about Professor Hans Rosling from Sweden and his work as a Statistician and Global Health expert. But what really is gapminder.org? In …
I was on a discussion forum connected to the “Getting and Cleaning Data” MOOC on Coursera. During the peer evaluation of the course’s project, one question puzzled me and I wanted to get some clues. The question is in no way related to the content of the project or the course, so I feel free …
I just completed the Coursera MOOC “R Programming” by Johns Hopkins University and on which I already have written about in another recent post. I have put together some thoughts on this course while responding to a question on the courses’ forums. The question was: “How do I master R Programming. My answer: If you …
Yesterday morning, while driving to work I was listening to the Belgian radio and they come up with the news about a test on a web site, designed and implemented by two swedish researchers, that would reveal to everybody the probability of dying in the next five years. The test is available at the Ubble …
A few months ago, I have started a web search about some new things I wanted to learn and I discovered the world of MOOCs. After a chat over coffee with my colleague Joaquin Morcate Jarillo, He pointed me to some Courses on the Coursera platform and also to the web site of John Sonmez …
I was reading a very interesting article on R-Bloggers, “Choosing R or Python for Data Analysis? An Infographic”. The Johns Hopkins Data Science Specialization makes a clear choice towards R. Also, this looks a good choice if you have to point jobs in this area. However, python is a generic purpose language and it is …