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How to build a survey based health tracker app with R Shiny

It is all about being positive or negative. May be this sentence is enough to summarise our experiences from the last couple of months. …
Last updated on Jun 3, 2020 3 min read

An accidental side effect of text mining

Extended version of https://towardsdatascience.com/an-accidental-side-effect-of-text-mining-4b43f8ee1273 “The end of our exploring will …
Last updated on Dec 13, 2019 54 min read

Speed boosting in R: Writing efficient code & parallel programming

Have more things happen at once: Parallel Programming Parallel processing is about using multiple cores of your computer’s CPU to run …
Last updated on Nov 15, 2019 11 min read

Cleaning and visualizing Five-year cancer survival statistics with ggplot2 and animation

Where are we standing on fight against cancer? Five-year survival rates is a good indicator of improvement in cancer medicine. I am …
Last updated on Nov 5, 2019 9 min read

An intuitive real life example of a binomial distribution and how to simulate it in R: Learn it once, use it everyday

Learn. It is all about success and failure. What are binomial distributions and why are they so useful? When we repeat a set of events …
Last updated on Oct 28, 2019 15 min read

Latest trends in automobile industry, Which are the top family cars for your weekend trip?

This week, I will analyze Car Fuel Economy dataset from TidyTuesday. What is TidyTuesday? TidyTuesday is a weekly social data project …
Last updated on Oct 23, 2019 7 min read

Add custom summary statistics in ggplot2

It is hard to understand your data by looking at the numbers on a csv file. You need to plot it. And adding statistics to your plots …
Last updated on Oct 16, 2019 5 min read

Data Preparation: Web Scraping html tables with rvest

Accessing different data sources Sometimes, the data you need is available on the web. Accessing those will ease your life as a data …
Last updated on Oct 10, 2019 11 min read

What is aesthetics and attributes in ggplot's world?

ggplot2 is a powerful data visualization tool of R. Make quick visualizations to explore or share your insights. Learning how …
Last updated on Oct 8, 2019 3 min read

Why not everyone who smokes develop cancer or who eats a lot develop fatty liver disease? Predicting diseases with machine learning

We are much better at handling diseases than 30 years ago. For example cancer survival rates are much higher now. The significant …
Last updated on Oct 1, 2019 24 min read