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…
As you might know, every month, a random Locke Data Twitter follower wins an excellent data science book! This month’s gift was “An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R”, a classic and useful textbook. In this post I’ll give you some magick-al tips from behind-the-scenes of this month’s winner announcement. It’ll feature learning…
Lack of women speakers at events is an important topic at the moment – not just in Cardiff/South Wales but worldwide. Recently I had the idea to look at the speaker gender divide of all the tech/digital meetups in South Wales that I could find which took place in 2017. Thankfully, with many of them…
This is the first of a series of Q&A interviews we’ll be holding with meetup organisers based in South Wales. Want to be interviewed? Let us know! First up we have Steph Locke (@SteffLocke) of Locke Data, who runs multiple meetups in Cardiff. Hi Steph! First of all, please introduce yourself and your business. Hi!…