Hi, I'm Neil, a freelance data professional and founder of Shoogle, a company helping people up their data skills.
This repository contains code from various R themed threads I have posted on my twitter along with videos which I have recorded for some of the threads.
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For online courses, training and consultancy visit my website shoogle.co
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Subscribe to my YouTube channel for videos on R and data science @shoogle youtube.com/@shoogle
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Follow me on Twitter for weekly threads on data and coding @neilgcurrie twitter.com/neilgcurrie
The code for each topic can be found in the above repositories, numbered by ID. Details are in the table below.
| ID | Title | Description | Link to Thread | Link to Code | Link to Video |
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| 0027 | Data pipelines with targets | Intro to targets package | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0026 | Factors | Mastering factors with R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0025 | Pivoting | How to pivot with tidyr | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0024 | Mapping | How to use the map family of functions from the purrr packages | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0023 | Stages of a data science project | 5 stage framework of analysis projects | Go to thread | No code thread only | |
| 0022 | Error handling with purrr | How to handle errors in R using safely and possibly from purrr | Go to thread | Go to Code | |
| 0021 | GitHub and R | An introduction to using GitHub with R | Go to Thread | No code thread only | |
| 0020 | Web scraping | An introduction to web scraping HTML websites with rvest | Go to Thread | Go to Code | Go to Video |
| 0019 | Writing functions | When and how to write great functions in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0018 | Dependency management with renv | Reproducible package version management with renv | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0017 | Documenting code in R | How to document your code, including packages with roxygen2 | Go to Thread | Go to code | |
| 0016 | Creating a package in R | Steps on how to organise your analysis as a package | Go to Thread | No code thread only | |
| 0015 | Unit testing in R | How to write unit tests in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0014 | DuckDB in R | An intro to using DuckDB with R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0013 | Parquet Files in R | An intro to what parquet files are and how to use them in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0012 | Data Wrangling with Arrow in R | Using the arrow package for manipulating big data with Apache Arrow in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0011 | 8 Data Vis Tips with ggplot2 | Using ggplot2 to demonstrate some opinionated data vis tips | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0010 | Dumbbell Plots | Using ggplot2 to build dumbbell plots | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0009 | Spreadsheets in R | Using the openxlsx package for building spreadsheets in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0008 | Timing Code | Using Sys.time, the tictoc package and the microbenchmark package for timing code | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0007 | Parallel Processing | Using the furrr package for iterating in parallel | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0006 | Joins with Spark in R | Using the sparklyr package for joining big data with Spark in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0005 | Modelling with Spark in R | Using the sparklyr package for regression modelling on big data with Spark in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0004 | Data Wrangling with Spark in R | Using the sparklyr package for manipulating big data with Spark in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0003 | Classification Trees | Using the tidymodels suite of packages for training and testing classification trees | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0002 | UUIDs | Using universally unique identifiers for datasets in R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | |
| 0001 | SQLite in R | Using the RSQLite and DBI packages for creating, updating and quering a SQLite database from R | Go to Thread | Go to Code | Go to Video |