Posts tagged with “DataSquad Blog” (All posts)

How to pick blog categories and tags for your data science posts

22 July 2020

Data Science is an interdisciplinary area, comprising several different topics. Considered as the sexiest area of the 21st century, Data Science consolidates the knowledge in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, general…

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Google Data Studio: A Google Doc version for Data Reports

26 June 2020

1. What is Google Data Studio? Understanding, analyzing, and visualizing data is on the surge more than ever. We have many powerful tools to handle those tasks with in-depth capabilities…

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Data Preparation with Tableau : Transform Data Format with Data Interpreter

20 May 2020

This is the 1st of a series of blog posts on data preparation in Tableau. In this blog post, I will introduce the Data Interpreter, a useful tool that can…

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SQL vs. NoSQL Databases, What…?

4 May 2020

SQL (Structured Query Language) and NoSQL (Not only SQL) are two popular yet distinct types of databases. A database is an organized collection of information, like a library with orderly…

Cloud Computing

4 May 2020

Cloud Computing (Cloud) is a massive computing resource built by Cloud provider (usually means several gigantic data centers in various geographic locations), and institutions/customers subscribe to computing resources according to…

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Dealing with a Vector Memory Exhausted Error in R

27 April 2020

When working with relatively large data in RStudio, it’s not uncommon to run into a Vector Memory Exhausted error. The threshold for this can depend on a number of things,…

Why We Choose Trello to Manage DataSquad

29 October 2019

The DataSquad is a group of student employees (a subgroup of Academic Technology – which is a subgroup Information Technology Services) that provide data-related services here at Carleton College.  To…

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Scraping ENROLL with Beautiful Soup and Pandas

29 October 2019

For my first project with the Datasquad, I worked on extracting course information to construct up-to-date lists of Writing Rich and Quantitative Reasoning Courses. Initially, we thought this task would…

How to Create a Digital Signature Using Preview

27 October 2019

Say you are about to sign your name on a PDF format file. How would you sign it? If you are thinking about printing, signing and scanning it back in,…