Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

R, data, problem solving nickvasile.com Fort Lauderdale, FL Joined June 2009

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

2 years ago

“Success comes to the lowly and to the poorly talented, but the special characteristic of a great person is to triumph over the disasters and panics of human life” -Seneca

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"Enough courage to get started + enough sense to focus on something you’re naturally suited for + enough persistence to stay in the game long enough to catch a few lucky breaks + a lot of hard work. There’s your recipe." -@JamesClear

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

2 years ago

What a great thought to consider on a birthday morning!

Tim Ferriss @tferriss

2 years ago

What a great thought to consider on a birthday morning!

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Tim Ferriss @tferriss

2 years ago

Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for “realistic” goals, paradoxically making them the most time- and energy-consuming. If you are…

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

2 years ago

"Sometimes all you need for exceptional results is average effort repeated for an above-average amount of time." – @JamesClear

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

4 years ago

Great presentation, providing motivation for, and examples of, 1) why visualization is important 2) examples of visualizations that provide more insight than the standard bar and box and whisker plots

Cédric Scherer @CedScherer

4 years ago

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

4 years ago

Read multiple files in a directory easier and performance improvements with SSDs - some great enhancements in this version!

Jim Hester @jimhester_

4 years ago

Read multiple files in a directory easier and performance improvements with SSDs - some great enhancements in this version!

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

4 years ago

Saves time when setting up a new RStudio install...

Jenny Bryan @JennyBryan

4 years ago

Saves time when setting up a new RStudio install...

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Malte Grosser @malte_grosser

5 years ago

I am very happy to share that Advanced R Solutions is finally completed and we will be publishing with Chapmann & Hall this year. Pls check out advanced-r-solutions.rbind.io #rstats

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

No more "invalid descriptor" error - great news!

Jim Hester @jimhester_

5 years ago

No more "invalid descriptor" error - great news!

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Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK @doctorow

5 years ago

That's where "Data Organization in Spreadsheets" - @kara_woo and @kwbroman's 2017 paper in @AmstatNews comes in. It lays out a crisp set of best practices for avoiding common errors, upping your CVS catastrophe game to really powerful mistakes! tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… 5/

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

A case study in debugging SQL issues in R. Debugging the Invalid Descriptor Index Error: nickvasile.com/2020/05/13/err… #rstats

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

I'll be giving this a whirl!

Keith McNulty @dr_keithmcnulty

5 years ago

I'll be giving this a whirl!

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Ohhh, that second histogram is nice!

Hadley Wickham @hadleywickham

5 years ago

Ohhh, that second histogram is nice!

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Now updated with working examples you can follow along with. #rstats

Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Now updated with working examples you can follow along with. #rstats

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Oh, this is cool!

David Sjöberg @davsjob

5 years ago

Oh, this is cool!

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

cheat sheet: 3 ways use dplyr to retrieve data from Microsoft SQL Server. #rstats nickvasile.com/2020/05/04/dif…

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Interesting sounding paper!

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Good data journalism. Reminds me of : 1) power of data visualization 2) Always think about the implications of who and what your measures are not including washingtonpost.com/business/2020/…

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Nicholas Vasile @nicholas_v

5 years ago

Microsoft SQL Server and the tidyverse: dbplyr, DBI, odbc and ODBC drivers, oh my! My investigation into how these work together to get data from SQL Server into R. nickvasile.com/2020/04/16/dpl… #rstats