At Springboard, we pair mentors with learners in data science. We often get questions about whether to use Python or R – and we’ve come to a conclusion thanks to insight from our community of mentors ...

The power of Python trumps Excel workbooks.

When it comes to working with data in a tabular form, most people reach for a spreadsheet. That’s not a bad choice: Microsoft Excel and similar programs are familiar and loaded with functionality for ...

There's a not-so-hidden danger when using Python that you need to be prepared to deal with. All modern software development languages are modular, which means developers can break larger sections of ...

Python is a popular general-purpose language, but it's increasingly favored for statistics, data analysis, and data science. If you have a basic knowledge of statistics, how can you apply that to ...

In December 2019 my InfoWorld colleague Sharon Machlis wrote an article called “How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table.” Sharon is a whiz at R programming, and analytics in general ...