I don't know why this took so long but I finally switched this blog from Jekyll to Hugo. Not that there's anything wrong with Jekyll but I've been experimenting with Hugo a lot over the last year and I feel more comfortable with it. This is built on the clarity theme, a beautiful theme for blogging.

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There are many reasons why data analysis should be performed using a language such as R or python over Excel but I'm constantly fighting with colleagues who refuse to adapt. Here are five reasons to stop using Excel: Reproducibility It's very challenging to use what's been done before with a spreadsheet. You can make …

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About 2 years ago my beloved Asus G60VX died. I loved that laptop. We'd been through a lot together and enjoyed five wonderful years. After a brief mourn I had a long think about the future and decided to move to a Chromebook. Precisely an Acer C270. I've moved from 15"x10" (16" screen), 7.3lbs to …

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So why write a blog and why write it now? I'm not a writer. I won't even pretend to be a writer. That's something reserved for my wife (she is actually a professional writer). I do, however, spend quite a bit of time writing code and it's now time to articulate some thoughts and share code. I'm also getting to the …

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