• Dave Langer

Power BI and R can be used together to achieve analyses that are difficult or impossible to achieve. Microsoft’s Power BI is a powerful technology for quickly creating rich visualizations. Power BI has many practical uses for the modern data professional including executive dashboards, ...

• Dave Langer

If you're an aspiring data scientist, you will need to know some math. Learn why math is important in machine learning. At the end of each of our bootcamps we ask our students to provide us with feedback on their experience. In particular, we ask for honest assessments and opini...

• Dave Langer

R Language is a vital skill for scientists, as evidenced by R's rapid rise in popularity. Not surprisingly, we teach the R language used in programming in our Bootcamp. However, per our mission of “data science for everyone,” most of our students do not have extensive programming...

• Dave Langer

Natural Language Processing is a key Data Science skill. Learn how to can expand your R programming knowledge with Text Analytics. It is my firm conviction that Natural Language Processing/Text Analytics is a must-have skill for any practicing Data Scientist. From analyzing ...

• Dave Langer

Feature engineering and data wrangling are key skills for a data scientist. Learn how to accelerate your R coding to deliver more, and better, features. Earlier this month I had the privilege of traveling to Amsterdam to teach a great group of folks data science. As is so often the case, ...

• Phuc Duong

Use Python and BeautifulSoup to web scrape. Web scraping is a very powerful tool to learn for any data professional. Make the entire internet your database.With web scraping, the entire internet becomes your database. In this tutorial, we show you how to parse a web page into a data file (csv) using...

• Dave Langer

Process Mining is a critical skill needed by every data scientist and analyst for mining rich and varied data contained in event logs. Event logs are everywhere and represent a prime source of big data. Event log sources run the gamut from e-commerce web servers to devices participating i...

• Phuc Duong

Data Science Portfolios can be built through Kaggle Competitions. Kaggle has positioned itself as the premier platform to learn data science. Kaggle is a crowd-sourcing platform in which companies post their real-world data science problems in an effort to solve their problems. Kaggl...

• Phuc Duong

Learn how companies like Zillow predict the value of your home. Build a predictive model that estimates the real estate sales price of a house.Ames housing dataset includes 81 features and 1460 observations. Each observation represents the sale of a home and each feature is an attribute descr...

• Phuc Duong

O'Reilly has been a staple in data science learning. That doesn't mean we can't have a little fun. Here are some spoofs of my favorite data science books. Data Science Books You may have come to this post actually looking for books to study data science. If that's you, take a look at...