Long term readers (hi!) may recall my failure to achieve the target I had of reading 50 books in 2016. I had joined the 2016 Goodreads reading challenge, logged my reading activity, and hence had access to the data needed track my progress at the end of the year. It turns out that 41 books … Continue reading Books I read in 2017
Month: January 2018
My favourite R package for: summarising data
Hot on the heels of delving into the world of R frequency table tools, it's now time to expand the scope and think about data summary functions in general. One of the first steps analysts should perform when working with a new dataset is to review its contents and shape. How many records are there? … Continue reading My favourite R package for: summarising data