Tag Archives: computer application terminology

Apply Weights? It’s Easy in R with the Survey Package!

You can do a population-based analysis if the original dataset used multi-stage sampling.

Apply weights to get weighted proportions and counts! Read my blog post to learn how to use the survey package in R.

Make Categorical Variable Out of Continuous Variable

You can make mean, median and mode with a continuous variable.

Make categorical variables by cutting up continuous ones. But where to put the boundaries? Get advice on my blog!

Remove Rows in R with the Subset Command

Learn r programming and biostatistics

Remove rows by criteria is a common ETL operation – and my blog post shows you how to do it using the subset command.

Defaults in PowerPoint: Setting Them Up for Data Visualizations

The defaults in PowerPoint are really set up for making presentations, not data visualizations.

Defaults in PowerPoint are set up for slides – not data visualizations. Read my blog post for tips on reconfiguring PowerPoint to make it easy for dataviz!

Internship Strategy for Data Science: Download our Guide!

In data science, you can learn applied skills by being part of an internship at a noted organization.

Internship strategy for data science is not obvious, and even if you are in a college program, they often expect you to find your own internship. Download our internship strategy guide and get the experience you want!

Front-end Decisions Impact Back-end Data (and Your Data Science Experience!)

How the front-end and back-end are connected can impact how data are stored in the application. So if you extract the data, you can have data quality problems caused by the front-end.

Front-end decisions are made when applications are designed. They are even made when you design a survey in SurveyMonkey. What health data analysts often don’t realize is that these decisions have a profound impact on the quality and accuracy of the data that are collected through these front-ends, which is the focus of this blog […]

Data Curation Course: Learn Data Curation Online from LinkedIn Learning!

Learn how to do data curation on LinkedIn Learning!

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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