As I’ve stated, this month’s goal is to refresh my R skills. I set out to complete G. Elliott Morris’ DataCamp political analytics course and Jeff Li’s Cracking the Data Science Interview course.

Well, after finishing the polling course a couple weeks ago, I have just completed “Cracking the Data Science Interview” and found it to be extremely helpful. It goes over all aspects of being a data scientist in a product-focused environment, and it is useful even if you don’t have deep understanding of the topics covered. Even listening to the slides can expose you to concepts to deep-dive into later.

With the time remaining, I’m going to do another course: Building Web Applications in R with Shiny (by DataCamp). This course will help me prepare for my February goal of publishing an R visualization to this blog.