Once you’ve installed and configured R to your liking, it’s time to start using it to work with data. Yes, you can type your data directly into R’s interactive console. But for any kind of serious ...

A few years ago, I was the CTO and cofounder of a startup in the medical practice management software space. One of the problems we were trying to solve was how medical office visit schedules can ...

After covering a recent session on data munging with Excel, I wanted to see how those tasks could be accomplished in R. Surely anything you can do in a spreadsheet should be doable in a platform ...

It’s Murphy’s Law of Data: The data you have isn’t always in the format that you need. And not all problems have to do with mistakes or gaps in the data. Sometimes you’ve got wide data that needs to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about how to drive more value with data and analytics. As data becomes increasingly ubiquitous, companies are desperately ...

You don't have to spend a fortune and study for years to start working with big data, analytics, and artificial intelligence. Demand for "armchair data scientists" – those without formal ...