People use R for lots of reasons: “It’s great for the models I need”, “I like the functional approach”, “It’s the tool I’m most comfortable with”. People don’t use R for these reasons: “I have a favourite processor core, I don’t want to use the others”, “I love how my memory needs to fit all…
How awesome is open source software? Quite awesome in our opinion! Locke Data maintains several open source repos on GitHub, in particular of R packages, and we’d like you to join in the fun! This month, we’re taking part in Hacktoberfest and will do our best to mentor you through your first open source contributions…
We’re done with the basics of handling data in R. Now we want to know how to make sense of it. We know what kind of data it is, we know how to look at column names, dimensions and the like. If you’re trying to add value to this data however, that very often isn’t…
Cosmos DB is a snazzy new(ish) Microsoft Azure product. I was able to go to Microsoft Office in London for three days of training on the database service, which was really well structured and well run, with a lot of knowledgeable Microsoft bods around to pass on their considerable knowledge. This post will extract out…
R objects To quickly recap, so far we’ve just worked with some single values to get to grips with how some of the various operations work. Of course, we rarely work with a single value! If we did, we could just use a calculator. This instalment you’ll get to grips with some different ways of…
It’s time for a Twitter book draw again: every month, a random Locke Data Twitter follower wins an excellent data science book! This month’s book was Weapons of Math Destruction : How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy. The animation I chose to create was inspired by the idea of destruction and by my…
Basic operations Now that we have some datatypes, we can start learning what we can do with them. This weeks video whisks over the basic operators – you know what plus and minus do, right? Then we look at some other less common operators and recap it all below. Pay special attention to all.equal(), there’s…
A part of Locke Data’s mission is sharing R knowledge and tooling with the world for free. If you have a look at our GitHub account, you’ll see we’ve pinned six of our package repos. Furthermore, to make it easier to find all the R stuff we’ve packaged up, we’ve added an “r-package” repo topic…
Hey again lovely readers! This blog is a very special one indeed, you get to hear about our great day out at SatRdays in Cardiff recently not once, not twice, but five times, from each of our team members perspectives! I think it’s fair to say that it was a very different experience for each…
Introduction One of the great things about the R world has been a collection of R packages called tidyverse that are easy for beginners to learn and provide a consistent data manipulation and visualisation space. The value of these tools has been so great that many of them have been ported to Python. That’s why…