Jamie is a scriptwriter in a movie production company. Lately, the production house was not doing very well. Also, there have already been a few rounds of layoffs. Jamie's boss, Kate, approached her one day about a possible new assignment for her. 

The job was to write a script for a movie based on a historical event that happened in Greece a very long time ago. It was expected to be in the Greek language and came with a deadline of four weeks.

"Greek?! I don't know Greek!" Jamie freaked out at first. But then she realized that turning down the assignment might not be the best idea at that moment.

So she accepted the project.

​But now she had a new dilemma. It was whether she should spend time to learn Greek first, or start working on the script in English right away? ​

One fine morning, while drinking coffee, she had a lightbulb moment! She remembered that Google Translate existed! She could use it to translate an English script into Greek instantly!

Based on my experience of teaching students at a business school, I know that many of you have a similar dilemma when it comes to advanced business analytics using the R language. The dilemma is whether you should learn R first or start with analytics concepts, algorithms, and techniques instead.

This is why I created Statsbuddy for you so that you can learn both business analytics and R at the same time. It works just like the Google Translate.

Now, you might think, why R, when you have so many other options, right? Well, that is a fair point, but none of the other options are both free and sophisticated like R! Also, with the advent of big data and artificial intelligence, there is a clear sign that open source languages like R and Python are our future. And it is worth investing time and effort to update yourself by learning those languages, even if you didn't try programming before. 

I hope you find this website useful in your journey of learning business analytics with R.
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Sincerely,
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Abhimanyu Gupta
Instructor of Data Science
Richard A. Chaifetz School of Business
Saint Louis University