Effortless great-looking Markdown Notebooks with RStudio 1.4+ — R Programming language is one of the main programming languages when it comes to statistical computing, Machine Learning and Data Science, and RStudio is by far the best IDE for working with R Programming Language. Unlike Python where you have dozens of options like Conda, Notebooks, command line, etc., …

Use the power of data analysis to decide where you’re going to travel next! — With COVID vaccines and better health measures, things are starting to “be normal again” in most aspects and countries are heavily investing in incentives for the tourism sector, especially in parts of Europe where the pandemic is slightly more in control. While personal safety and well-being are of the utmost…

Text Mining and Natural Language Processing are two of the most interesting fields right now in Data Mining. …

These functions will elevate your Exploratory Analysis to the next level — The EDA — Exploratory Data Analysis — phase of the Data Mining framework is one of the main activities when it comes to extracting information from a dataset. Whatever your ultimate goal is: Neural Networks, Statistical Analysis, or Machine Learning, everything should start with a good understanding and overview of…

Apenas 5% dos espaços públicos do Porto têm nome de uma pessoa do sexo feminino — e ainda não há nomes em homenagem a pessoas não-binárias — Inspirado pelo belíssimo projeto Equal Street Names, resolvi determinar qual é o nível de desequilíbrio entre nomes que homenageiam personalidades femininas e personalidades masculinas nas ruas do concelho do Porto, onde vivo há alguns anos. Quem sabe este projeto possa se tornar um primeiro passo no sentido de uma maior…

Metabase doesn’t natively allow to load data directly from CSV files, but that can be fixed with a plugin and some resilience, check it out — Metabase is one of the best tools for quick and intuitive data exploration and visualization. It allows you to answer questions related to your data pretty handily and in just a few steps, provided you have it in a compatible format. Do you use Metabase for answering questions about your…

Where each team is most popular outside their home state? Or “The tale of Brady’s widows”. — I’ve been following the NFL for quite some time and I thought of exploring the interest each team draws in the US, and one easy source of data to answer this kind of question is definitely Google Trends. …

Create dashboards in Grafana using your Postgres database without any hassle — Grafana is a cutting-edge tool when it comes to monitoring your server, service, or database. It connects out-of-the-box with several data sources, it’s easily configurable even for novice users and surprisingly, it’s open-source so you can get in on the action for free if you want. Postgres is one of…

Sentinel Hub, one of the best resources for satellite images for your Data Science project — There are a lot of things you can do with satellite images nowadays, be it to use in your geographical analysis system or to aid your statistical analysis on R/Python or any other programming language. The first question you will (and should) ask yourself though is: where can I find…