I already introduced some stuff I did with the last.fm API. But did you ever wonder if your taste of music changes over the year? Sunny music in the sunny months and dark music in darker months? Well, I did. And I want to check it out with the RLastFM ...
I want to share a function I wrote for my dissertation. The function is useful for putting up to two R tables into one TeX table.You have to load the package 'languageR' to have the dataset 'dative' available.Let's suppose you have two tables, one with...
last.fm is an internet radio and music suggestion service. Registered users can also use last.fm to 'scrobble' tracks they've been listening to. last.fm then keeps track of a user's statistics in terms of top artists, albums and tracks.Luckily, last.fm...
Let's get back to the age-value relationship from my last post. I did some more plotting to see on which position this inversed U-shaped relationship is strongest. Please note, that I use a dataframe called eu.players throughout this post, which holds ...
It's been some time since my last post on football. And we're talking about european soccer here.So I finally managed to write some functions which allow me to extract player stats from www.transfermarkt.de. The site tracks lots of stats in the world o...
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Just as a quick reply to a friend of mine who suggested testing the swearing capabilities of The Dude:Click to enlarge.As you can see, "The Big Lebowski" (2.79 % swear words) takes the Tarantino threshold (0.98 %) easily, but it's no match against "Res...
Fortunately, there is a page called www.opensubtitles.org, where you can get subtitle (.SRT) files for virtually every movie. Now let's see what we can do with these. SRT files are in plain text format (human readable) and can thus be read quite easily...
Just a fast note: I came across the R-package "knitr" which enables you to generate PDF files by mixing LaTeX and R code in one document. The result looks very nice and is great to create documentations, manuals and so on. I find knitr much easier to u...
For Jan...I've got no data for "S.H.I.E.L.D." :(Maybe, but just maybe, "Firefly" gets the way-to-early-cancelled bonus by the voting community.
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
