What makes a good chat topic? Whether you are contributing to a group or providing a service, learn how to leverage Clubhouse Chats for better live social audio experiences — When it launched a redesign of its social audio app, Clubhouse introduced a feature called Chats which allows people to put asynchronous participation in the rooms. This asynchronous participation works by having users leave a message for others to attach a replying message. …

The relationship between data analytics and data centers is evolving, influencing how analysts can gain insights from their data. — The evolution of analytics has had a profound influence on digital marketing. It allowed marketers of all skill sets and responsibilities to quantify their customer engagement. Much of the quantifications were from data through a website. Today more and more customer data is arriving through data centers. …

R can run in Google Colab. It’s Just A Matter of Switching Runtimes. Here’s how. — Most R programming developers, data analysts, and data scientists are used to seeing or programming with Rstudio. However, they tend to forget that our programming is a standalone language that runs in the terminal. Other IDE’s can access R programming and display the results. …

Hashtags have enhanced how people talk on social media. Will they work on Threads? — Mashable reported that Meta CEO Mark Zuckerburg announced the gradual rollout of hashtags in Threads, the microblogging app that competed against Twitter/X. The feature, initiated by typing a @ sign and appearing as blue text, will appear in accounts soon. The introduction of hashtags was long expected. Instagram CEO Adam…

Be it R programming or Python, ChatGPT Plus Advanced Data Analysis introduces a faster workflow for your data. — When ChatGPT was first introduced, the public was quickly introduced to the capabilities of AI. Or at least enamored with AI capabilities. However technical professionals who work with data have been a bit more reserved. Ok, I will spill the beans — I have been one of those reservists. AI…

The Quantmod library provides a variety of functions to convert a variety of investment data into an xts time series and to calculate stock market analysis — In a separate post, I mentioned the yfR library in R Programming for downloading stock market data — it relies on Yahoo Finance information. It is a very useful and straightforward library. But there are other libraries available that can add more sophisticated features to the imported stock market data.

Use built-in functions to create data based on a probability distribution for your data frames, data tables, and matrices — In my post Creating Synthetic Datasets with R Programming, I noted several built-in functions in R for creating data with sequencing or patterns within the dataset. Creating an example dataset would be useful for experimenting with a calculation in your R programming script or a function you expect to create…

New RStudio extension and Copilot Chat expand AI pair programming to a wider data science and developer audience — Having another tool to enhance productivity at the keyboard has become en-vogue. Many IDEs have relied on version control to help manage files on a project. Now there is a new tool that brings an innovative twist to productivity. GitHub's recent AI tool, Copilot, represents more than an algorithm developed…

People are using URL Speculation As Phishing Scams. Here is What To Do To Avoid Them When Planning Online Presences. — So, imagine this — you are at your laptop, quickly checking email before preparing to run a Zoom call with a customer. An email catches your eye with a message that reads like the following: Hello [your name here] We have seen a significant increase in phishing schemes and other…