In 2017 I was tired of my job in IT and wanted to make a change. I wanted to become a data analyst. I had always enjoyed data. From sports to personal finance to counting calories, data and numbers just …
KPI is probably the most used and least understood acronym in business. It’s everywhere, and people constantly discuss a KPI or metric when launching any new marketing campaign. You’ll often hear, “Well, what are the KPIs?” Understanding what KPIs are …
When it comes to website tracking and understanding website usage, Google Analytics is the gold standard. Approximately, 53% of all websites use it, which is several times higher than the next closest competitor: Adobe Analytics. Part of what makes Google …
I’m currently working my way through the DataCamp career track, Statistician with R. The fourth course in the track is DataCamp Correlation and Regression in R. I enjoyed this course. It was not the most technical course I’ve taken with …
When cleaning data you’ll almost always need to rename the columns in R. And if you’re like me, you’ll forget how to do it every time. I wanted to create this post as a reference for how to rename the …
This is a review and my answers to the DataCamp Project Visualizing COVID-19. You can find the project here if you want to do it for yourself. It’s been a while since I’ve done a Datacamp project. My last one …
One of the more interesting and troubling news stories occurring right now is the Coronavirus outbreak occurring in China and across the world. Data visualization and disease have a history together starting with the famous Cholorea map by John Snow. …
WordPress sites now make up almost 30 percent on the internet. In fact, this blog is built with WordPress and hosted by Bluehost(It’s an affiliate link, but you get half off your first month). So since so much of the …
I entered my submission to r/DataIsBeautiful’s monthly data visualization competition. This post explains how I went through the Rubik’s Cube data. How I came up with the idea. How I cleaned the data. And ultimately how I visualized it in …
It can be tricky to compare two date ranges in Tableau. I’ve done a similar tutorial in the past, but there’s more than one way to skin a cat. Especially when you’re used to the simplicity of Google Analytics or …