After visiting Fenway Park for the first time this past week, I quickly how statistic focused baseball really was. Most sports have statistical pundits making models and predictions about player performances and match outcomes. However baseball is the…

With the plethora of options availiable and the constant SQL vs NoSQL debate raging, choosing a database system to learn and use can be daunting. Here I will try to describe and review each of the popular choices and help to reduce the confusion.

Packages are the backbone of what makes the R programming language great. Both the huge number of options and the high quality of the packages makes it easy to integrate into your own work.

Currently in the data science field the data community in general, there is much debate over which file formats should be in use for the storage and exchange of data. The three modern formats in high usage are Comma-Separated Values (CSV), JavaScript Object…

The popularity of R has nearly doubled in the last decade according to Google Trends data. On top of that, it has now taken the 9th place on PyPL’s Popularity of Programming Languages Index.