data science

Whenever you’re learning a new tool, for a long time, you’re going to suck… But the good news is that is typical; that’s something that happens to everyone, and it’s only temporary.

Hadley Wickham

Writing is a critical skill — perhaps the most important — of all the skills required to analyze data. The only way to get better at writing is to write, ideally every day.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories with Data

To a certain extent we are wasting our time. We have a perfect model of the world—it is the world! But it is too complicated.

Rohan Alexander, Telling Stories With Data