Google searches and the amount of searches for terms can show how interested the public is in that subject. After all, the act of Googling something is result of someone having some level of interest in that topic. The data that comes from Google searc...
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A new Le Monde mathematical puzzle in the digit category: Given 13 arbitrary relative integers chosen by Bo, Abigail can select any subset of them to be drifted by...
I am currently reproducing a statistical analysis a colleague of mine conducted in Stata. Obviously, I am using R for the replication. I came across what I think is...
R users have been enjoying the benefits of SQL query generators for quite some time, most notably using the dbplyr package. I would like to talk about some features...
Taiwan Language Survey is a small project I worked on during May to June in 2018. The idea was to create a survey that continuously collects data and a...
Introduction When speed and memory efficiency is important, the data.table package is one of the ways to improve those aspects of our R code dramatically. Including data.table in a package...
This is another function I wrote to access the MET office API and obtain a 5-day ahead weather forecast:METDataDownload
This is a very simple function to perform geocoding using the Google Maps API: getGeoCode
“Lights, camera and … action – Take 4+!” This post includes a rework of all presentation of ‘Elements of Neural Networks and Deep Learning Parts 1-8 ‘ since my...
How do you program? I feel like there is a lot of advice out there, but most of it focuses on the micro level rather than on the macro level....
Mastodon is a decentralized microblogging platform. We can analyse some data and directly post our findings to a Mastodon instance. For example we can plot the different TLDs used...
In this post, I walk through the code I used to make a nice diagram illustrating the parameters in a logistic growth curve. I made this figure for a conference submission....
Townsville, Qld, has been inundated with torrential rain and has broken the record of the largest rainfall over a 10 The post The Most Amount of Rain over a...
CategoriesProgramming Tags Data Visualisation Exploratory Analysis R Programming This is an attempt to see how the data that are collected from us, can also be used for the betterment of us – one’s self....
I’ve got a post up over at $DAYJOB’s blog on using the ropendata🔗 package to access the ginormous and ever-increasing amount of internet telemetry (scan) data via the Rapid7...
As I’m waiting to catch my flight back from Stockholm (where I had a rather interesting meeting discussing Bayesian network meta-analysis. But I digress…), I am browsing the news...
Summer is really going to be busy, this year. But in a good way… In June, I’ll be at our annual summer school in Florence. This year, we have a...
Manning has a new discount code and a free excerpt of our book Practical Data Science with R, 2nd Edition: here. This section is elementary, but things really pick up...
Abstract: The perfect circle is a shiny app providing a user friendly interface to the algorithm described in the previous blog post Judging Freehand Circle Drawing Competitions. The app allows...
The hclwizard.org web page has been relaunched, hosting three online color apps based on the HCL (Hue-Chroma-Luminance) color model: a palette...
A monthly roundup of news about Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science. This is an eclectic collection of interesting blog posts, software announcements and data applications from Microsoft...
Real nerds on Valentines day graph hearts instead of drawing them. My drawing skills are not what I like them to be, my R skills are though! Therefore, let’s...
It's Valentine's day, making this the most romantic time of the year. But actually, already 2018 was a year full of love here at STATWORX: many of my STATWORX...
The use case is to create the same plot in different languages. I used this technique for Wikipedia plots. We are going to build a list containing all translations,...
This method can discretize a variable taking into consideration the target variable, similar to what decision tree do but with gain ratio.
Have you heard of RStudio Connect, but do not know where to start? Maybe you are trying to show your manager how Shiny applications can be deployed in production, or convince...
Some find it a common knowledge, some find it weird. As a professor I usually teach about Monty Hall problem and year after year I see puzzling looks from...
One of the topics that is totally hyped at the moment is obviously Artificial Intelligence or AI for short. There are many self-proclaimed experts running around trying to sell...
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