Harvard University is providing seven free online courses in data science, each running for eight to nine weeks and requiring ...

Python may be the second choice to R, but its popularity and ease of use positions it to dominate data science. “When [Netflix’s data science team] started, there was one single kind of data scientist ...

This online data science specialization is designed for anyone interested in learning how to program in R. You will learn the basics of R, including imputing data, performing basic analysis, graphing, ...

Java can handle large workloads, and even if it hits limitations, peripheral JVM languages such as Scala and Kotlin can pick up the slack. But in the world of data science, Java isn't always the go-to ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

Data science and machine learning professionals have driven adoption of the Python programming language, but data science and machine learning are still lacking key tools in business and has room to ...