Who’s Who in the Data Science Industry (infographic)

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Alcohol and radar plots in R with ggplot2

Radar plots may be an unusual way to represent data, but under the right circumstances…

Van der Graph Generator

This week, I gave my students an online exercise, which involved plotting a graph. My exact words on the assignment…

Why We Decided to Start Yet Another Data Science Newsletter

Data science is a world that doesn’t seem to ever stay put. In the blink of an eye dozens of open source projects are launched and companies develop new data products or solutions. Many many awesome, and exciting, meaningful or…

Data Dive Berlin 2015

Am 23.-25.10.2015 fand der erste DSSG Berlin Data Dive statt. Für ein Wochenende stand Zalandos Shuttle Innovation Lab ganz im Zeichen von Datenanalyse für das Gemeinwohl. Über 60 freiwillige DatenanalystInnen unterstützten unsere Non-Profit-Partner Jambo Bukoba, streetfootballworld und…

Scrape ‘Unicorns’ from web site and get them into tidy form

Probably you have heard about ‘unicorns…

Measuring Construction Project Success

Rhumbix is based in San Francisco, where it seems that every neighborhood is dotted with cranes or scaffolding. For most people, a successful construction project is simply one that is completed. They consider construction a nuisance because it slows traffic or…