Reading

This is a collection of various readings I like. Rather than novels, this list will focus more on things like blog posts, tutorials, etc, and will mainly be about programming/statistics/tech.

• dplyr vs data.table - a community post on Stack Overflow discussing dplyr and data.table.

• Why I don’t use ggplot2 by Jeff Leek - Another piece that I totally disagree with, but think it’s a very good piece of writing.

• Future of R syntax by Lionel Henry - A cool piece about Lionel experimenting with some improvements to the R language.

• How to Debug Small Programs by Eric Lippert - A fantastic bit of writing on how to approach debugging as a beginner.

• You Cant Dig Upwards - by Evan Miller. Piece about why C is a good first language to learn. Note, I strongly disagree with Evan on this piece, but its a great piece of writing.

• Dont Teach Students the Hard Way First - Piece by David Robinson that argues the opposite philosophy to Evans above.

• Teach the Tidyverse to Beginners - Earlier piece of David Robinsons teaching philosophy, more specific to R.

• Teach ggplot2 to beginners - Another piece from David about his teaching philosophy

  • Seriously, just go read all of David Robinsons stuff. He’s such a good writer.
     

• Data Driven Logo Design with ggraph and gtable by Thomas Pedersen - Thomas showing how he created the logo for his blog, entirely within R.

• Taking control of animations in R and demystifying them in the process by Thomas Pedersen - Follow up to previous post, showing how to add animation to the logo.

• Introduction to dplyr by Hadley Wickham - Best way to get started with analysing tabular data in R