Datacamp, one of the leading data science education portal with over 100 courses on variety of data science aspects in both Python and R, has launched a new podcast named “DataFramed“. The main theme of the podcast DataFramed is, you guessed it, data science. DataFramed is a weekly data science podcast hosted by DataCamp’s Hugo Bowne-Anderson. […]
How To Add a New Column Using a Dictionary in Pandas Data Frame ?
Creating a new column to a dataframe is a common task in doing data analysis. And this task often comes in a variety of forms. Earlier we saw how to add a column using an existing columns in two ways. In this post we will learn how to add a new column using a dictionary […]
6 Most Useful dplyr Commands to Manipulate a Data Frame in R
dplyr is one of the R packages developed by Hadley Wickham to manipulate data stored in data frames. Data frame is a two-dimensional data structure, where each column can contain a different type of data, like numerical, character and factors. In case you wondered the meaning of the word “dplyr”, it is like “pliers” for […]
How to Compute Executing Time in Python?
It is really good to know whether the code you wrote is efficient or fast. We can test that by checking how long it takes to execute certain commands, or functions. Computing Execution Time With “time” Module One way to get the execution time is to use the built-in time module and its function time.time. […]
Data Visualization with R, A New Online Book
Just recently wrote a post on 13 awesome Free Books to learn Data Science and R. And that did not last long. It is not just 13 anymore :). It is time to update the list of awesome data science books/resources available online freely. Claus Wilke, a professor from UT Austin has just announced a […]