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Save time and improve accuracy by automating the repetitive (boring) stuff
Corporate reporting is a prime candidate for automation if you can clearly explain the process to produce it, and the process remains consistent over time. Automating your reports has many potential benefits, it can save time, reduce errors, and alleviate…
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Exploring public data with Power BI – abandoned mines in Ontario
Power BI is Microsoft’s data exploration and dashboarding tool. While it hasn’t risen to desktop prominence like Excel and Outlook have for the majority of knowledge workers, it is an incredibly capable tool which allows you to quickly visualize data…
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Advanced email in R: embedding images and markdown
Previously we looked at how you can combine R and Markdown to create reports directly from your R scripts, and also how to send email from R using Microsoft Outlook. In this post, we’ll take these concepts a step further…
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Get started with RPA today using free tools
Robotic process automation (or RPA) is transforming the way many businesses handle their repetitious, labour intensive tasks such as reporting, making basic decisions, and providing services. Using software these tasks can be automated; reducing the time to complete tasks while…
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CRISP-DM in depth: data understanding
Having developed business understanding and a deep knowledge of the problem you are trying to solve, the next step in the CRISP-DM framework is to develop that same level of understanding around the data itself. This step isn’t analysis, but…
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Quickly create polished, professional reports with Markdown and R
One underappreciated feature in R is the ability to easily create beautiful reports using Markdown. Markdown files contain a combination of code and text, allowing you to write your analysis alongside your code and publish both the analysis document and…
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Defining big data
Buzz words have the unfortunate tendency to be often used but seldom clearly defined. Today we are going to tackle the popular phrase “big data” and strip it down to a clear definition. Overall the term is fairly self explanatory,…
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Book review: Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O’Neil
As big data transforms our businesses, governments and society, it also presents us with new moral and ethical dilemmas that we need to consider. As is typical with new technology, we often tend to implement first, and consider the ethical…
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CRISP-DM in depth: business understanding
When using the CRISP-DM framework, the first step in the data mining process is to develop your business understanding. This stage of the process is about gaining knowledge of the business, the issues they face, opportunities for improvement, their objectives,…
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Error catching, logging, and reporting in R with tryCatchLog
One of the biggest benefits from creating an automatic reporting framework is that you no longer need to directly supervise the creation and distribution of reports. However, when things go wrong it can be difficult to understand what went wrong…