Latest: Data Science Leadership

Mar 18 2021
7 min
BI and Data Science: Matching Approaches to Applications

In this post, we'll provide some insights from organizations who have used both types of tools and give some guidance about which you should use when.

Lou Bajuk
Mar 11 2021
11 min
BI and Open Source Data Science: Strengths and Challenges

Continuing our series on self-service BI tools and code-friendly, open source data science, in this post we dive into the strengths and challenges of the different approaches.

Lou Bajuk
Mar 4 2021
7 min
BI and Data Science: The Best of Both Worlds

In many large organizations, Business Intelligence and Data Science teams compete for budget and mindshare. By focusing on how data science can both augment and complement BI tools such as Tableau and...

Lou Bajuk
Jan 13 2021
5 min
RStudio: A Single Home for R and Python Data Science

Over the past year, RStudio has invested in making our pro and open source offerings the best common home for both R- and Python-based Data Science. In this blog post, we explain why we support both...

Lou Bajuk
Jan 6 2021
8 min
Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Building The Dashboard

In this post, I continue our series on how to create your own Google Analytics dashboard in R. Using the data we downloaded in our last post, we'll now create a simple dashboard showing blog page...

Carl Howe
Dec 23 2020
39 min
Exploring US COVID-19 Cases and Deaths

Arthur Steinmetz, former Chairman, CEO, and President of OppenheimerFunds, uses R and the tidymodels package to explore the relationship between COVID-19 cases and mortality in the US.

Art Steinmetz
Dec 23 2020
4 min
Winners of the 2020 RStudio Table Contest

Tables are a fantastic way to communicate lists of quantitative and qualitative information. To help celebrate them, and to encourage the R community to share great examples with code and tutorials,...

Richard Iannone , Curtis Kephart
Dec 11 2020
2 min
Announcing the 2020 R Community Survey

Want data about how people learn and use R? If so, please fill out our 3nd annual survey so that we can better understand today's R community. We'll publish the results in February 2021 as free and...

Carl Howe
Nov 30 2020
3 min
rstudio::global(2021) Diversity Scholarships

Even though this year's virtual conference is itself free, we are continuing our tradition of diversity scholarships but with a different theme and focus.

Julia Silge , Jen Hecht
Nov 27 2020
15 min
Custom Google Analytics Dashboards with R: Downloading Data

This article, the first of three, describes how to use a code-oriented data science approach to Google Analytics data from a blog. It creates custom views of raw GA data while hiding the complexity of...

Carl Howe
Nov 19 2020
10 min
How California Uses Shiny in Production to Fight COVID-19

RStudio analyzes how the California Department of Public Health built a COVID-19 dashboard in R and Shiny that now serves millions of California citizens.

Daniel Petzold
Nov 17 2020
13 min
Why RStudio Focuses on Code-Based Data Science

Michael Lippis of The Outlook podcast recently interviewed RStudio's Lou Bajuk to discuss open source data science, support for R and Python, and how leaders are getting value from data science.

Lou Bajuk , Carl Howe
Nov 12 2020
7 min
Where Does RStudio Fit into Your Cloud Strategy?

Over the last few years, more companies have begun migrating their data science work to the cloud. As they do, they naturally want to bring along their favorite data science tools, including RStudio,...

Lou Bajuk
Oct 30 2020
6 min
Why RStudio Supports Python for Data Science

When our customers ask us why RStudio's products support Python as well, we have a simple answer: It's because our data shows that our customers use R and Python for different tasks

Carl Howe
Oct 13 2020
9 min
Open Source Data Science in Investment Management

Photo by Kelly Sikkema on Unsplash Surviving the Data Deluge Many of the strategies at my old investment shop were thematically oriented. Among them was the notion of the “data deluge.” We...

Art Steinmetz