Tag Archives: computer application terminology

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!

PowerPoint for Visualizations: A Simple Tool for Minimizing Complexity

A picture is worth 1,000 words – and one of the easiest tools you can use to make images is PowerPoint! But PowerPoint wants to make slides, not diagrams, so it likes to fight with you. Want to learn specific features of Microsoft PowerPoint you can use to make excellent data curation visualizations?

PowerPoint for visualizations is an easy choice – but you have to do a lot of hacks and configurations to get the software to do what you want. Take my online course and learn my tricks!

Data Science Coaching: Improve your Grade – or your Career!

Sometimes college students need an academic coach, but other times, career professionals need advice from a peer.

Data science coaching for the right person at the right time can empower them to quickly turn around their grades in college, immediately wrap up a portfolio project, or springboard their career into management or higher! Read my blog to see how.

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 […]

Applications Basics for Data Analysts and Statisticians

Impress your colleagues with an advanced grasp of the data you are analyzing, as you demonstrate applying scientific research methods to data originating in apps! Take our online course, “Application Basics”, which is part of DPS’s Applications Series.

Applications basics are now essential knowledge if you want to do data science in healthcare. Get a crash course in applications basics!

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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