Data Things & Stuff

Ramblings about data things and other stuff by Nick Bautista.

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Getting Back Into Film Photography

February 8, 2023

I used to shoot a lot of film. It was getting expensive so I stopped. Now, I'm at it again!

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A Trip to Tahoe

February 20, 2022

The fam and I did a little work from home Tahoe trip a few weeks ago and it was beautiful!

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Older Post Update

December 28, 2021

A quick update on older posts from my site.

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Helpful YouTube Channels - December 2021

December 10, 2021

3 helpful YouTube channels that I've been watching lately

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Welcome Back to Data Things and Stuff

December 2, 2021

Data Things and Stuff looks a little different now...What gives?

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The group chat is LIT! WhatsApp Text Analysis with R

June 25, 2018

It was cool to see who sends a lot of texts but what are those texts about?

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The group chat is LIT! Parsing WhatsApp with Python, R , & Tableau

April 18, 2018

Ever wonder who spams your group text the most? Turns out you can actually find out!

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Moving Files with Python

April 9, 2018

A quick solution for dealing with some zipped files

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Accessing Google Drive with R

February 23, 2018

Checkout this R package that makes interacting with Google Drive a breeze.

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“Intermediate” Excel With Python

February 20, 2018

Here are a few techinques that may be considered "intermediate" in Excel, but with Python

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“Intermediate” Excel with R

February 6, 2018

Here are a few techinques that may be considered "intermediate" in Excel, but in R

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Pesky Date Formats

January 29, 2018

Date formats can be annoying. Here's a few ways to deal with them in Excel, R, and Python.

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Twitter as a Tool for Learning?

January 16, 2018

I thought Twitter was just a place for memes? Turns out there's stuff to learn aroud there too.

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Scheduling R Scripts on Windows

December 2, 2017

Schedule R scripts to do tasks while you're away!

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