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Git with RStudio: Order Matters!

RStudio provides tools and integrations to make working with git from RStudio a little easier.  Getting everything to work together, however, can be a...
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Comparing Python Interactives to R Shiny

  This is a companion to my previous blog post, where I compared popular Python libraries for creating interactive figures.  Here I will use...
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Online Learning Resources: Clustering

By Julianne Murphy, Data Science Consultant This is part of a series of posts on online learning resources for data science and programming. Cluster...
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2021 Computational Research Services Annual Report

Computational Research Services within the Northwestern IT Research Computing Services enables the use of Northwestern’s central computing resources, including Quest, the Quest Analytics Nodes,...
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What is the Best Interactive Plotting Package in Python?

I love using, creating and teaching people about interactive figures.  They can be incredibly useful tools for investigating your data and for sharing your...
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Plotting Geospatial Data with Python

Last month I wrote a blog post diving into the nitty gritty details about how to download a satellite image as a GeoTIFF file...
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Downloading Satellite Images Made “Easy”

Recently I went looking online for a satellite image of Chicago to use in an RCS workshop. I figured that a simple Google search...
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Quest Node Refresh: What is new?

About Quest10 Nodes The refresh will increase Quest’s General Access computing capacity, as detailed below: 213 Quest10 nodes replaced 161 Quest5 and Quest6 nodes....
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The Workshop Workshop

Creating new materials for data science and programming workshops is time consuming. This has always been true, but when we switched to remote instruction...
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Common Consults: Indicator Variables from Multiple Response Survey Questions

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...
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Online Learning Resources: Regular Expressions

This post is part of a series of posts on online learning resources for data science and programming. Regular expressions, or regex for short,...
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Learning More: Data, Race, Bias, and Justice

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...
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