Thread by @mdancho84

No matter how long I’ve been doing data science, I still get smacked in the face every once in a while.

A true story. 🧵

#rstats

Listen, I’ve been coding in R since 2013.

I’ve published 10 R packages now.

My top 3 combine for over 2,500,000 downloads.

I’ve taught over 3,000 data scientists, many work for Apple, Microsoft, Google, Netflix.

AND, I still get smacked in the face every once in a while.

Case in point!

I was building a Shiny App for my 2018 R/Finance presentation.

(I’d been coding in R for over 5 years & by this point I was pretty solid).

I was sitting in a Starbucks in Chicago, 1000 miles away from my home, dutifully working on my presentation that I was giving the next day.

I updated my R software and BAM!

My app stops working.

Ahhhhh!!!! 🤦‍♂️

IT TOOK ME 14 HOURS TO FIGURE OUT THE PROBLEM!!

Yeah, I know… 14 hours is a long time.

But I had a presentation to give THE NEXT DAY.

Problem was that someone changed an argument to a function. A cruel joke, right?

Wrong. That change legit cost me 14 hours of my life that I’ll never get back. 😡

So my point here is don’t update R.

Just kidding.

My real point is that we all run into problems, and this process can take YEARS to get good.

I’m with ya. I put in the painful YEARS of learning data science the wrong way. So You Don’t Have To.

In fact, I made a free webinar that will help.

It is 40-minutes of free training on the 10 secrets that took me 5-years to learn on my path to becoming a data scientist.

Literally what worked, and what mistakes to avoid in your path. I cover all of it in one value-packed training.

learn.business-science.io/free-rtrack-ma…