Loading Data using R and PowerBI
I'm not a fan of R visuals in PowerBI. I recently learned I can use R to load data and native PowerBI visuals to display the data. Here's how.
2022-05-27 (first published: 2017-10-16)
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2017-10-11
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2017-10-04
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Real-time moving averages for IoT with R
Computing an average over all your data is easy, but what if your data arrives incrementally and you need to be able to compute real-time averages on the fly? That's what we are going to look at.
2019-10-04 (first published: 2017-10-02)
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2017-09-27
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2017-09-20
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Moving beyond principal components analysis
Principal components analysis is a standard, but usually terrible, technique for visualising complex data. We're using network diagrams to solve this problem.
2019-10-11 (first published: 2017-09-19)
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2017-09-13
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Pattern Recognition via Principal Components Analysis
We'll look at using principal components analysis to help visualise your data and detect underlying structure or patterns.
2019-10-25 (first published: 2017-09-12)
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The Shortcomings of Predictive Accuracy
In prediction, accuracy is key. But it's not all it's cracked up to be as we will explore.
2017-09-07
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