Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at Foundry (the IDG, Inc. company that publishes websites including Computerworld and InfoWorld), where she analyzes data, codes in-house tools, and writes about data analysis tools and tips. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published by CRC Press.
140 Characters Twitter conference highlights
Intriguing nuggets from the conference that bills itself as "The State of Now."
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Find out the maximum radiation absorption levels from various mobile phone handsets, using this searchable database. Or view and sort the full table of 1,300+ models.
Advanced beginner's guide to R
So you've gone through the Computerworld Beginner's Guide to R and want to take some next steps in your R journey? In this advanced beginner's guide, you'll learn data wrangling, best packages to use for different tasks, how to...
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Why x=3 doesn't always mean what you think it should, about data types and more.