Digital nomads are people that use technology in order to work remotely and live an independent and nomadic lifestyle. Nomadlist finds the best cities in the world for digital nomads. Based on their data, I have plotted the cities on a map. Clicking on a […]
Recently I saw a great webcast about the Spark connector for R. Since I am working with R and learning Apache Spark was already on my TODO-list, I tried it out. Why would you use Spark in combination with R? Well, R and RSstudio are […]
Lately I have been working with R in a data quality project. The project involves running business rules that are written in SQL and executed against a SQL server. I have done a little research about accessing a SQL or MySQL server from R and […]
Wow, I found out there are many nice visualization tools and libraries available! Dimple, D3, Tableau, PlotLy..too name a few. For the visualization project at Udacity, I made a plot of US airline delays
For my last post, I used a python script to scrape the data from a website. I used Python..just because I am used to do webscraping in Python. But I heard R also got better at scraping, so I rewrote my script in R. The package […]
This year I am participating again in an ice skating event in Austria, called the “Alternatieve Elfstedentocht”. Because I was interested in the results of previous years, I have done some analysis, after scraping the results from the Weissensee website. Data analysis
For the Explore and Summarize Data project of Udacity, I have analyzed a wine dataset. Always wanted to know, what are the factors in wine quality? Does red or white matter? Please see my github
Yes, I just passed the 3rd project from Udacity’s DataAnalyst program! github
What was the syntax again for ggplot or how can I read in a csv file with some delimiter? That’s why I have started a page collecting some handy R commands, see R commands It is not complete yet, but still under work. Let me […]
Currently I am following Udacity‘s data analyst course, which is really interesting. I have done some data analysis with R, but not so much with Python. Found out about Anaconda, which offers some great packages like numpy, pandas(ql) and scipy. In project 2, the goal […]