What is the Career Path for a Data Scientist? (From $75,000 to $150,000 salary in 1-year) Written by Matt Dancho on March 15, 2022 The data science career path is demystified in this article showing you 2 case studies and a ton of research on how to set your career up for going from $75,000 to $150,000 in 1-year. Read More...
The 14 most important data science skills (To get a $50,000 increase in salary) Written by Matt Dancho on March 11, 2022 Which skills are important to becoming a data scientist? How to pick a language? How to learn the skills? These questions and many more are answered in this post. Read More...
My 4 most important explainable AI visualizations (modelStudio) Written by Matt Dancho on February 22, 2022 The modelStudio library offers an interactive studio for developing and exploring explainable AI visualizations. Read More...
A new R package for Business Analytics... radiant Written by Matt Dancho on February 1, 2022 I'm super impressed by the radiant R package. With no prior exposure to radiant, I was able to complete a short business analytics report in under 10-minutes. Read More...
Introducing portfoliodown: The Data Science Portfolio Website Builder Written by Matt Dancho on December 20, 2021 I'm super excited to introduce a new R package that makes it painless for data scientists to create a professional. Read More...
Tidy Time Series Forecasting in R with Spark Written by Matt Dancho on October 20, 2021 I'm super excited to introduce the new Modeltime Backend for Spark. Let's use it to perform forecasting with tidymodels. Read More...
How to Make a Heatmap in R Written by Matt Dancho on October 12, 2021 The ggplot2 package is an essential tool in every data scientists toolkit. Today we show you how to use ggplot2 to make a professional heatmap that organizes customers by their sales purchasing habits. Read More...
3 Ways to Read Multiple CSV Files: For-Loop, Map, List Comprehension Written by Matt Dancho on September 21, 2021 Reading many CSV files is a common task for a data scientist. In this free tutorial, we show you 3 ways to streamline reading CSV files in Python. Read More...
Tidy Parallel Processing in R with furrr Written by Matt Dancho on September 14, 2021 furrr is a critical package to speed up iterative calculations using tidyverse purrr syntax. Read More...
Introducing Iterative (Nested) Forecasting with Modeltime Written by Matt Dancho on August 26, 2021 I'm super excited to introduce the experimental feature for performing iterative forecasting. Read More...
ggalt: Make a Lollipop Plot to Compare Categories in ggplot2 Written by Matt Dancho on August 24, 2021 ggalt is a ggplot2 extension that adds many new ggplot geometries. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to make lollipop plots for comparing categories within our data using geom_lollipop(). Read More...
ggalt: Make a Dumbbell Plot to Visualize Change in ggplot2 Written by Matt Dancho on August 12, 2021 ggalt is a ggplot2 extension that adds many new ggplot geometries. In this tutorial, we'll learn how to make dumbbell plots for visualizing change within our data using geom_dumbbell(). Read More...