Online Learning Resources: R
Posted January 24, 2024
Updated January 2024 by Ritika Giri Maybe you’ve seen the dashboards or reports your colleagues produce with Shiny or R Markdown. Perhaps you’ve heard...Category: Learning Resources
Working with R and Word
Posted December 19, 2022
Are you using R for data analysis and then writing up your results in Word? This is a common workflow, but can be tedious...
Learning Git and GitHub
Posted June 9, 2022
If you write code with others, you’ll eventually find yourself using git and GitHub. Here are a few resources for getting started and improving...
How To Choose a Color Scheme for Your Scientific Figure
Posted May 20, 2022
The choice of color(s) has a strong impact on the message that is conveyed in a scientific figure. It is therefore extremely important to...
Git with RStudio: Order Matters!
Posted May 11, 2022
RStudio provides tools and integrations to make working with git from RStudio a little easier. Getting everything to work together, however, can be a...
Online Learning Resources: Clustering
Posted March 14, 2022
By Julianne Murphy, Data Science Consultant This is part of a series of posts on online learning resources for data science and programming. Cluster...
Plotting Geospatial Data with Python
Posted January 4, 2022
Last month I wrote a blog post diving into the nitty gritty details about how to download a satellite image as a GeoTIFF file...
Downloading Satellite Images Made “Easy”
Posted November 19, 2021
Recently I went looking online for a satellite image of Chicago to use in an RCS workshop. I figured that a simple Google search...
Common Consults: Indicator Variables from Multiple Response Survey Questions
Posted April 16, 2021
A common question we receive from researchers is how to create a series of indicator variables (0/1 binary variables) from a single data column...
Online Learning Resources: Regular Expressions
Posted March 4, 2021
This post is part of a series of posts on online learning resources for data science and programming. Regular expressions, or regex for short,...
Learning More: Data, Race, Bias, and Justice
Posted August 18, 2020
We teach data science and programming skills to thousands of members of the Northwestern community. In these short workshops, we’re often unable to address...
Online Learning Resources: Parallel Processing with Python
Posted May 26, 2020
This post is part of a series of posts on online learning resources for data science and programming. By Raymond Wang, High Performance Computing...