It is a universal truth that textsmiths work with data formats. Yet formats are attempts to impose structure on messy reality, but no format can decide what the right structure is for you. So in this post, we are going to look at what data cleaning is.

R is a dedicated statistical language. For any textsmith who wants to use R for data analysis, none appeals better than this fre text, R for Data Science

The spreadsheet is a wonderful interface. But it is not the only way to think about data.

How a Unix terminal became a data analysis laboratory

When everyone else sees a paragraph, AWK sees a database.