@drsimonj here to make pretty scatter plots of correlated variables with ggplot2! We’ll learn how to create plots that look like this:  Data In a data.frame d, we’ll simulate two correlated variables a and b of length n: set.seed(170513) n 2 0.9133158 0.21116682 #__ 3 1.4516084 0.69060249 #__ 4 0.5264596 0.22471694 #__ 5 -1.9412516 -1.70890512 #__ 6 1.4198574 0.30805526  Basic scatter plot Using ...

If you follow me on Twitter or monitor @Rapid7’s Community Blog you know I’ve been involved a bit in the WannaCry ransomworm triage. One thing I’ve been doing is making charts of the hourly contribution to the Bitcoin addresses that the current/main attackers are using to ...

This is the third one of the 3-posts-series, where I go from fetching Twitter users and preparing the data to visualizing it (If I wanted to show everything I’ve done in a single post, it would be almost as long as my first one! And believe me: nobody wants ...

This is the second one of the 3-posts-series, where I go from fetching Twitter users and preparing the data to visualizing it (If I wanted to show everything I’ve done in a single post, it would be almost as long as my first one! And believe me: nobody wants ...

Fiverr When deciding on a website for my web scraping project, I thought of Fiverr's captivating subway ads. Fiverr is a digital marketplace for buying and […] The post Scraping Fiverr To Analyze Freelancing Market Trends appeared first on NYC Data Science Academy Blog.

Hello R community. if you’re up for some fun tinkering with a Shiny App please join me on a new project. I would love to see some collaboration in designing a Shiny Application which will help people make a decision about a healthcare provider. I have only just begun ...

We can’t really find (at least at the moment) what people think about different topics, but thanks for technologies we can find out what they write about it, which is rather close in many cases. Today I decided to explore what people write about different ecommerce platforms since this ...

In this post, I am exploring network analysis techniques in a family network of major characters from Game of Thrones. Not surprisingly, we learn that House Stark (specifically Ned and Sansa) and House Lannister (especially Tyrion) are the most import...

Imagine a gene that comes in two variants, where one of them is deleterious to the carrier. This is not so hard to imagine, and it is often the case. Most mutations don’t matter at all. Of those that matter, most are damaging. Next, imagine that the mutation happens ...