R

Motivation Google Colab is a great free could computing resource. The best part is that it uses Jupyter-like Notebooks that support R runtime out of the box (no need to install kernel or anything), and these notebooks live in your Google Drive .

The problem at hand Matching multiple datasets based on one or more columns is a very commonly utilized procedure in data science. Usually, we are lucky enough to have a common unique identifier between these datasets.

Updating R (for Windows) The most straightforward way to update R on Windows is to use the installr package. installr can also be used to install also ‘Rtools’, ‘RStudio’ and ‘Git’.

Reasons and inspiration I was working on a dashboard for our psychology clinic admissions. We need to keep track of appointments to organized our staff. I thought I would make a handy heatmap calendar to show each month the number of admissions to certain services.