Sharon Machlis was a longtime writer and editor at Computerworld and later the Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at parent company Foundry. She is also the author of Practical R for Mass Communications and Journalism.
Sharon's Do more with R video tutorials won a Jesse H. Neal award for Best Instructional Content.
Recently retired, Sharon is still passionate about R and generative AI, and also blogs about the retirement life. You can find her on Bluesky at @smachlis.bsky.social, Mastodon at @smach@masto.machlis.com, and LinkedIn.
Make your own API and connect it to a Slack custom slash command -- all in R. This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to find a current stock price, but the basic framework can be used for all sorts of data.
If you have a favorite news source that you want to add to Alexa, here's how to do it.
Many people from 'dangerous and volatile regions' work in the U.S. on H-1B visas, and Trump's plan would penalize these workers because of birthplace
We'll show you how to analyze a file with more than two million records of U.S. airline flight delays in this hands-on tutorial with video.
If you want to play along with our hands-on Power BI tutorial, get the files here.
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