Sharon Machlis
Executive Editor, Data & Analytics
Sharon Machlis is Director of Editorial Data & Analytics at Foundry (the IDG, Inc. company that publishes websites including Computerworld and InfoWorld), where she analyzes data, codes in-house tools, and writes about data analysis tools and tips. She holds an Extra class amateur radio license and is somewhat obsessed with R. Her book Practical R for Mass Communication and Journalism was published by CRC Press.
5 easy ways to run an LLM locally
Deploying a large language model on your own system can be surprisingly simple—if you have the right tools. Here's how to use LLMs like Meta's new Code Llama on your desktop.
Generative AI with LangChain, RStudio, and just enough Python
Here's how R users can get comfortable working with Python and LangChain, one of the hottest platforms for working with large language models.
6 ways to find better content on Mastodon
The more you know about Mastodon networking, the better your search experience will be. Here's how to promote and find user content on Mastodon.
How to use GPT as a natural language to SQL query engine
A few strategic decisions can help improve your generative AI code and queries, and prevent sending out sensitive data.
8 ChatGPT tools for R programming
The generative power of OpenAI's GPT 3.5 LLM is now available to R users, with a growing collection of ChatGPT packages and apps to choose from.
R tutorials: Learn R programming for data science
Search for R tutorials by task, topic, or package. Many include videos which are shorter than 10 minutes
Do more with R: RStudio addins and keyboard shortcuts
Speed up your R programming workflow with RStudio addins and customized keyboard shortcuts
Create a free data dictionary with R
Have data sets scattered all over the place? Pull them into a single, robust catalog with the pointblank R package and a Quarto document.
Wasm comes to R
Posit, formerly know as RStudio, has debuted an early version of an R package, aimed at developers, that brings WebAssembly (Wasm) to R.
Data Workshops for Ukraine: Learn a skill and support a cause
The two-hour workshops offer training in data visualization and analysis with R, Python, and SQL and cost just $20 or €20. Next up is ChatGPT in R.
How to merge data in R using R merge, dplyr, or data.table
See how to join two data sets by one or more common columns using base R’s merge function, dplyr join functions, and the speedy data.table package.