by Sharp Sight | Aug 13, 2018
One of the most common questions I get from data science hopefuls is “which programming language should I learn?” My general advice is “it depends.” Or to clarify my response, I like to ask the question “who are you, and what are your...
by Sharp Sight | Aug 8, 2018
If you want to master data science in R, you need to master foundational tools like the mutate() function. Readers here at the Sharp Sight blog will know how much we emphasize “foundational” data science skills. If you want to be effective as a junior data...
by Sharp Sight | Jul 26, 2018
Right now (in 2018) the average salary for a data scientist is over $120,000 per year, according to Glassdoor. Source: Glassdoor Considering that the median household income in the US is about $55,000 per year, the average salary for a data scientist represents a...
by Sharp Sight | Jul 17, 2018
In this blog post, I’ll show you how to rename columns in R. This is pretty straightforward if you know how to do it properly, but there are also some little challenges in renaming variables. So very briefly, I’ll explain why renaming variables in a...
by Sharp Sight | Jul 11, 2018
If you want to be a data scientist, you need to master core data manipulation tools. One particular skill you’ll need to master is string manipulation. You need to be able to work with strings (i.e. character data) in order to clean, modify, or reshape them. In...
