Our annual training review is back! Like many other training providers, we had to pivot to online learning in 2020, which brought with it challenges but also new opportunities. The review will show you what the year looked like for our trainers and training course attendees, including which trainer taught the most courses!
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In 2020, GitHub took the correct decision to change the default branch from master to main. For single, independent repositories, this is relatively straightforward. But moving groups or organisations is more complex and requires planning.
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Learning D3.js can be pretty overwhelming as an R user. Luckily, the {r2d2} package lets you keep your data cleaning steps in R and easily incorporate any visualisation in R Markdown reports and R Shiny dashboards. This tutorial-style blog will take you through creating your first D3 visualisation with a bit of Scooby-Doo along the way.
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Apache Parquet is a column storage file format used by many Hadoop systems. This post describes what Parquet is and the tricks it uses to minimise file size. We also discuss how to use Parquet, within an R workflow.
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Bridging the gap between data science and IT teams is much easier than you might expect! This two-part webinar will discuss why open source languages are suitable for enterprise data science, and how data scientists can work with the IT team to get their organisational buy-in.
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Forking repositories is a great way to learn from and contribute to others' code. However, you may quickly end up with a cluttered user space, with old forks lingering around. Manually removing repositories is slow and tedious. Read more to find out how you can use the {gh} package to speed up the process.
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