FREE White Paper -- 5 Things Excel Users Should Know About R
George Mount
Analytics & AI for Modern Excel ?? LinkedIn Learning Instructor ?? Microsoft MVP ?? O'Reilly Author ??
Update: I am so happy about the enthusiasm for this type of content. A fuller course is in development -- in the meantime please check out this FREE E-COURSE BASED ON THE WHITE PAPER (also yours to download with the course). One request: I have included a short survey with this video course. Your feedback will help me develop the best course.
R is a popular open-source programming language for exploratory data analysis, visualization and more. As a popular and free data science tool, it is a great companion for the Excel user.
R is as quirky as it is powerful. In this series of posts I explain R especially for the Excel analyst. Let me help you over the learning curve so you have yet another tool to whip data, save time, and think creatively about data.
But… isn’t this an Excel blog?
While I have had my biggest influence with Excel, my bigger goal is for you the analyst to get better and faster at analyzing data so that you can innovate.
To that end, both Excel and R are excellent tools. What I will not say is that R is “better” than Excel. Ever hear Bob Vila say a crescent wrench is “better” than a sledgehammer? No. They are different tools used for different things to build something awesome.
Rather than knock Excel as “inferior,” I aim to use your background and experience using Excel as a foundation to augment your knowledge about business analytics through R. While R has a notoriously steep learning curve, as an Excel user you know more than you think.
I’m ready to learn R. Where do I start?
Isn’t this your lucky day. I would suggest you check out my free white paper, “5 Things Excel Users Should Know About R."
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After that, peruse my posts on R and stay tuned for more content.
As I develop this and more curriculum, I welcome your thoughts. How can I help you learn R? What frustrations have you experienced?
Manager, Data & Analytics
6 年I used to do a lot of analysis in Excel, but it feels clunky now that I use R and Python. It's still a great tool and allows you to share and collaborate with non-programmers though! Looking forward to more posts!