Get to know three of my favorite SAS documentation pages: the one with sort order, the one that lists all the SAS formats, and the one that explains all the SAS operators and expressions!
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Nov
Even if you do not deal directly with cryptography, the need to maintain data privacy often leads data scientists to need to study cryptography. This basic online course is part of an ethical hacking certification and gives a basic overview of issues with data transfer and cryptography.
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Nov
Nov
If you receive payroll in the US, you can see that the data on the payroll stub is pretty complicated. This course in payroll is helpful for data scientists who find themselves analyzing US payroll data, because it explains the business rules and regulations behind the data.
Educational Resources
If You Want to Increase Conversions, Try my A/B Testing Course on LinkedIn Learning
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Oct
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A/B testing seems straightforward, but there are a lot of picky details. What A and B conditions do you actually test? How long do you run the test? How do you calculate the statistics for the test? Answer your questions by taking this LinkedIn Learning course.
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Oct
SAS is known for big data and data warehousing, but how do you actually design and build a SAS data warehouse or data lake? What datasets do you include? How do you transform them? How do you serve warehouse users? How do you manage your developers? This book has your answers!
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Oct
Curation files are especially helpful for communicating about data on teams. Learn more about what you’ll learn when you take my online LinkedIn Learning data curation course!
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Oct
Oct
I use the datasets from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS) to demonstrate in a lot of my data science tutorials. The BRFSS are free and available to the public – but they are kind of buried on the web site. This blog post serves as a “map” to help you find them!
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Oct
Oct
I love the Likert package in R, and use it often to visualize data. The problem is that sometimes, I have sparse data, and this can cause problems with the package. This blog post shows you a workaround, and also, a way to format the final plot that I think looks really great!
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Oct
Oct
After being hit with the pandemic, I’m racing to catch up with my blog! Here are a few announcements of new courses, new scientific papers, and new ideas on data science!
Data Science
I Used the R Package EpiCurve to Make an Epidemiologic Curve. Here’s How It Turned Out.
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With all this talk about “flattening the curve” of the coronavirus, I thought I would get into the weeds about what curve we are talking about when we say that. We are talking about what’s called an epidemiologic curve, or epicurve for short. And to demonstrate what an epicurve is and what it means, I […]