Just happened to come across this tweet about David Robinson’s talk on “Ten Tremendous Tricks for Tidyverse”. It looked like a fantastic and useful talk. These ten tricks involve tidyverse functions one may not have heard of or thought of using in a scenario. The first four tidyverse tips is about counting and summarizing, next […]
Data Science Books on Black Friday Deals 2019
Amazon is running a limited time book deal on Black Friday 2019, in which you can get three books for the price of two books. (The offer is still available as of 7am (EST).) Basically if you buy three books from a list, you don’t pay for the book with the least price. Are you […]
Three New Interesting Books on Data Science/Machine Learning
Three new practical books on Data Science/Machine Learning have got published recently. All three are introductory level books taking Hands-on approaches to teach Machine Learning and Data Science toolbox. All three books are great additions to learn Machine Learning with minimal math. Hands-on Machine Learning with R Hands-on Machine Learning with R by Brad Boehmke […]
9 Tips to Make Better Scatter Plots with ggplot2 in R
Scatter plot is one of the common data visualization method used to understand the relationship between two quantitative variables. When there is strong association between two variables you would easily see the relationship with scatterplot. However, when the relationship is subtle it may be tricky to see it. In this post we will see 9 […]
How to Highlight Data Points with Colors and Text in Python
Sometimes you might want to highlight a select data points on a scatter plot. Often when plotting scatter plots you might want to highlight data points in a different color from the rest of the data points. Other times you want to show select data points in different color and annotate them with text. In […]