Creating an animation with ggplot2?

Data journalism awards, cheap data science, IBM Watson, GPU Databases & more [DataCamp]( DataCamp Weekly Issue #11 ― August 22, 2017 Tuesday! And we’re starting off the day with some fresh data science content. Make sure to check out our job postings below, some especially interesting ones this week. We’re also featuring some really cool data visualizations in this edition, as well as some pandas tips, data journalism awards, cheap data science and some Magic(k)! Got some cool data visualizations you’re working on? Send them to us. Enjoy! Like what you’re seeing? Forward to a friend! Received this email from a friend? [Sign up]( for a DataCamp account to to receive a dose of data science every Tuesday. --------------------------------------------------------------- Projects & Resources [Pandas tips and tricks]( Check out this post for all things Pandas. Learn how to use Pandas efficiently for preprocessing and feature engineering from large datasets. Great resource. [medium.com]( Long-Term Arrivals in New Zealand by Region [New Zealand Arrivals]( DataCamp user [@EmmaVitz]( created this cool data visualization on the percentage of long-term arrivals in New Zealand by region. If you have cool content you wish to share, let us know on [Slack]( or Twitter! [Keras tutorial – build a convolutional neural network in 11 lines]( Does building a convolutional neural network sound complicated? This tutorial will show you how to build a CNN in 11 lines of code. [adventuresinmachinelearning.com]( [I made a 3D movie with ggplot2 once - here's how I did it]( Yes, you read that right - you can make a 3D animation with ggforce and ggplot2. Thomas Lin Pedersen shows us how he did his bit of magic last year. [data-imaginist.com]( [How to build an image recognizer in R using just a few images]( Training a neural network model to recognize images takes millions of images. But by using a combination of Resnet and microsoft R server, you can do this with just a few. Here’s how. [blog.revolutionanalytics.com]( [A Whirlwind Tour of Python]( Jake VanderPlas gives a fast-paced introduction to essential features of the Python language. This is aimed at users already familiar with another coding language. [jakevdp.github.io]( In The News [tidyr 0.7.0 is now out on CRAN]( Hadley Wickham announced last week that tidyr 0.7.0 is now available on CRAN. Featuring support for tidy evaluation and tidyr is now using tidyselect as selection backend. [tidyverse.org]( [In defense of cheap data science]( After traveling to Senegal to run data science workshops and training, Bruno Sanchez-A Nuno decided to work as a data scientist with the cheapest possible computer. Here are his thoughts on that experiment. [medium.com]( [Announcing simplyR]( simplyR is a web space where practical and easy guides for solving real important problems using R will be posted. Keep an eye out for this. Contributions welcome. [r-bloggers.com]( [A Judge Just Ordered LinkedIn to Allow Scraping – Here’s Why]( Is it legal to scrape a website for your product? A new ruling in California could have huge implications on the future of scraping and takes a stand in favor of Open Data. [blog.webhose.io]( Elsewhere - [Magick 1.0: 🎩 ✨🐇 Advanced Graphics and Image Processing in R]( - [The Rise of GPU Databases]( - [Why Everyone Is Hating on IBM Watson—Including the People Who Helped Make It]( - [Data Journalism Awards 2017]( Jobs - [Data journalist for The Economist, London]( - [Data Science Analyst, Amaro, Sao Paulo]( - [Junior Data Scientist/Data Scientist, Penguin Random House, NYC]( [Owl R3]( --------------------------------------------------------------- That's all for now. Have a great week! DataCamp Inc. 2067 Massachusetts avenue Cambridge MA 02140 [Unsubscribe](