In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

What first interested you in data analysis, Python and pandas? I started my career working in ad tech, where I had access to log-level data from the ads that were being served, and I learned R to ...

In this section, we use the open data SFMTA Bikeway Network at San Francisco Data. The data include the network of bike routes, lanes, and paths around the city of San Francisco. Maintained by the ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Identifying causal relationships from observational data is not easy. Still, ...

One of the goals underlying the study of common diseases is to identify susceptibility and/or resistance genes associated with them. Previous studies of common diseases include two broad categories: ...