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Nearly every data scientist will say the same thing: The most important aspect of analytics is effectively communicating your results. So, how can you do this, whether it be in your practicum project, personal work, or career? The key is to make beautiful and easy-to-interpret visuals. The ggplot2 package in Continue reading Creating a Custom ggplot2 Theme
Entering a program so heavy on technical skills without a statistics degree is intimidating. It can feel like you are behind on day one and that your peers have significantly more experience in the world of data than you do. But data and statistical techniques have a way of sneaking Continue reading The Shared Language of Artists and Analysts
Inflation, Inflation, Inflation! With inflation soaring lately, it is hard not to ponder how to stay ahead of it and how to financially secure your future. As students embark on their analytics journey at the Institute for Advanced Analytics, a basic understanding of financial investing may help with investment goals Continue reading Visualization and Analysis of the S&P 500 Index Fund
At the Institute for Advanced Analytics, we spend a lot of time honing our communication skills. This surprised me at first. Coming from a background in statistics, I had always spent more time thinking about the tests I was running or the models I was building than the presentation of Continue reading A Guide to Colorblind-Friendly Visualizations