State of Ohio TechCred program now taking applications (Reimbursed workforce...
If you spend any time in Ohio it won’t take long before seeing a Stuck in Ohio bumper sticker. It’s apparently meant to be taken ironically, but I’m not sure it usually is. Our state is often the butt...
View ArticleAdvancing into Analytics: Try before you buy
We live in era of trials — and I don’t just mean it in the sense of tribulation à la 2020. No, most purchases these days allow you to “try before you buy.” And why shouldn’t a book be the same way?...
View ArticleHow to Build Analytics Technical Skills (How to Get an Analytics Job Podcast)
I’m excited to join How to Get an Analytics Job podcast host John David Ariansen on a live stream Friday 6/4 at 12p Eastern. You can join on LinkedIn Live or via the YouTube embed below. A recording...
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Teaching coding: what is pair programming?
Some say that learning is a team effort, and pair programming makes that an explicit part of learning how to code. Here’s how it works, the pros and cons. How it works There are no rubrics or packages...
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Advancing into Analytics: What’s with the bird?
Technical publishers are an interesting case study. With most trade books, readers hardly know or are concerned with the publisher. There might be a tiny penguin or house on the corner of the cover,...
View ArticleAdvancing into Analytics: Microsoft Excel and Data Analysis Learning...
I’m pleased to share that I’ll be presenting to the Lagos, Nigeria-based Microsoft Excel and Data Analysis Learning Community on Sunday, July 11th, 2021 at 4pm Lagos time (11am Eastern US time). The...
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A tour of Python + Jupyter Notebooks
In an earlier post I offered a tour of RStudio, the popular integrated development environment and my preferred interface for teaching R. With Python, I favor Jupyter notebooks so figured a similar...
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Five ways to get help in Python
In an earlier blog post I offered five ways to get help in R. This post serves as the Python equivalent, assuming you are working in Jupyter notebooks. 0. Web search it This one seems obvious, but is...
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Zero-based indexing: What it is and when you’ve seen it before
Have you ever needed to pull the first record of a dataset? What about the last, or maybe even the seventeenth? This is called indexing. There’s a lot of data out there, and indexing gives us a set of...
View ArticleLearning path: Fundamentals of data visualization in Excel
I do, but I don’t get the disdain toward Excel that’s so common among many technically-inclined data and tech people. The way I see it, most tech professions have some medium for wireframing,...
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