Thursday, January 10, 2019

Detached HEAD in GIT and how to fix it .

What is a 'Detached HEAD' state ?

When you do a "git checkout" you determine which revision of your project you want to work on . GIT then places all the files in that revision in your working folder . We usually do a git checkout on a branch name . However, you can also checkout on a commit id . This is when the detached HEAD state comes into picture .

Monday, November 5, 2018

Plotting functions in R

Exploratory data visualization is the main strength of R. R is more flexible and efficient compared to other data visualization tools and programming languages like D3. In this post we will see the different graphical facilities available in R.

Tuesday, October 30, 2018

R - Vector Arithmetic

So far in our earlier posts we have seen how to create vectors and various operations on vectors like sorting. In this post we will learn to do arithmetic operations on vectors and see how these are helpful for data analysis.

Friday, October 26, 2018

R - Sorting Vectors

For Data Analysis we will often have to order or sort data in increasing and decreasing orders . In this post let's see how to use sorting functions on our CO2 emission dataset.

Wednesday, October 24, 2018

R - Working with Vectors


Complex datasets are usually broken down into components that are vectors. For example, in a dataframe such as the CO2 emissions seen in the earlier post , each column is a vector.