rmadillo/business_intelligence_with_r

Repo for Leanpub Book, "Business Intelligence with R"

Business Intelligence with R

Dwight Barry

This is the repository for the book Business Intelligence with R by Dwight Barry, available on Leanpub at https://leanpub.com/businessintelligencewithr.

Pull requests and suggestions for improvement are welcome!

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The growth of R has been phenomenal over the past several years, reaching out past academia and research labs into the daily activities of business and industry. More and more line-level analysts are supplementing their SQL or Excel skills with R, and more and more businesses are hiring analysts with R skills to bridge the increasing gap between business needs and on-hand analytic resources.

While there are already many books that explore the use of R in statistics and data science, many of them are set as a series of case studies or are written predominantly for academic audiences as textbooks. There are also many R cookbooks, but they tend to cover the breadth of R's capabilities and options. This book aims to provide a cookbook of R recipes that are specifically of use in the daily workflow of data scientists and analysts in business and industry.

Business Intelligence with R is a practical, hands-on overview of many of the major BI/analytic tasks that can be accomplished with R. It is not meant to be exhaustive--there is always more than one way to accomplish a given task in R, so this book aims to provide the simplest and/or most robust approaches to meet daily workflow needs. It can serve as the go-to desk reference for the professional analyst who needs to get things done in R.

From setting up a project under version control to creating an interactive dashboard of a data product, this book will provide you with the pieces to put it all together.

business_intelligence_with_r's Issues

Colon character in filename prevents Windows users from cloning the repo

The filename "manuscript/ images/ Screenshot from 2015-02-28 14:46:39. png" cannot be created on Windows since colon character is illegal for filenames. This prevents git clone from completing for the repo.

Enjoying the book so far, hope this info helps.

About page - Incorrect link to Github site for the code

Hi I was looking at your book and saw that you have links to the code on Github. This link seems to be broken and is currently pointing to https://github.com/Rmadillo/business_intelligence_with_r/code

Error in chap1 rmd # Create a DateTime object

When running chunk by chunk from rmd file I've got an error:

Create a DateTime object

power$DateTime = as.POSIXct(paste(power$Date, power$Time))
# this will take even more time 

Error in as.POSIXlt.character(x, tz, ...) :
character string is not in a standard unambiguous format