Articles by Tony Hirst

Revisiting MPs’ Expenses

April 2, 2013 | Tony Hirst

I couldn’t but notice the chatter about Iain Duncan Smith claiming he’d have no problem “living on 53 pounds a dayweek“, which made me wonder not only how many meal catered events he attends each week (and how many of his scheduled meeting also have complementary tea and biscuits (... [Read more...]

Sketches Around Twitter Followers

February 19, 2013 | Tony Hirst

I’ve been doodling… Following a query about the possible purchase of Twitter followers for various public figure accounts (I need to get my head round what the problem is with that exactly?!), I thought I’d have a quick look at some stats around follower groupings… I started off ... [Read more...]

Getting Started with F1 Betting Data

January 28, 2013 | Tony Hirst

As part of my “learn about Formula One Stats” journey, one of the things I wanted to explore was how F1 betting odds change over the course of a race weekend, along with how well they predict race weekend outcomes. Courtesy of @flutterF1, I managed to get a peek of ... [Read more...]

The Basics of Betting as a Way of Keeping Score…

January 15, 2013 | Tony Hirst

Another preparatory step before I start learning about stats in the context of Formula One… There are a couple of things I’m hoping to achieve when I actually start the journey: 1) finding ways of using stats to help to pull out patterns and events that are interesting from a ... [Read more...]

My Personal Intro to F1 Race Statistics

January 10, 2013 | Tony Hirst

One of the many things I keep avoiding is statistics. I’ve never really been convinced about the 5% significance level thing; as far as I can tell, hardly anything that’s interesting normally distributes; all the counting that’s involved just confuses me; and I never really got to grips ... [Read more...]

WordPress Stats in R

January 9, 2013 | Tony Hirst

A trackback from Martin Hawksey’s recent post on Analysing WordPress post velocity and momentum stats with Google Sheets (Spreadsheet), which demonstrates how to pull WordPress stats into a Google Spreadsheet and generates charts and reports therein, reminded me of the WordPress stats API. So here’s a quick function ... [Read more...]

NHS Winter Situation Reports: Shiny Viewer v2

December 18, 2012 | Tony Hirst

Having got my NHS Winter sitrep data scraper into shape (I think!), and dabbled with a quick Shiny demo using the R/Shiny library, I thought I’d tidy it up a little over the weekend and long the way learn a few new presentation tricks. To quickly recap the ... [Read more...]

Mapping Primary Care Trust (PCT) Data, Part 1

December 7, 2012 | Tony Hirst

The launch or official opening or whatever it was of the Open Data Institute this week provided another chance to grab a snapshot of notable folk in the community, as for example demonstrated by people commonly followed by users of the #ODIlaunch hashtag on Twitter. The PR campaign also resulted ... [Read more...]

Quick Shiny Demo – Exploring NHS Winter Sit Rep Data

November 28, 2012 | Tony Hirst

Having spent a chink of the weekend and a piece of yesterday trying to pull NHS Winter sitrep data into some sort of shape in Scraperwiki, (described, in part, here: When Machine Readable Data Still Causes “Issues” – Wrangling Dates…), I couldn’t but help myself last night and had a ... [Read more...]
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