The first step to becoming a top performing data scientist
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December 2017
Using R on Android
I just discovered a way to get R running on my smartphone, with full support for packages, graphics and R Markdown, and no need to connect to an external server.
This is really handy for quickly checking R code, trying out ideas and writing blog posts on the go.
It ...
Adding bananas from the commandline (extending the oomsifier)
Sometimes you just want to add bananas from the commandline. Previously
I created a small script that takes an image and adds a dancing banana to the bottom left of the image. I wanted to make an API too, but that will have to wait till next year. Today we ... [Read more...]
RStudio + Blogdown + Github + Netlify = A winning formula
I thought it was worth posting about how I set up this blog as I had enormous trouble setting it up. I’d never done anything like this before and so some Google searching exposed me to many different technologies, but I had no clue what they did, whi... [Read more...]
Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes – who knew a mobile game could be so complicated?!
How I started playing
What are mods??
Laying the groundwork
Reading in game data
Cleaning it up
Let the shenanigans begin!!
Attempt 2: Brute force…
The eventual resignation…
How I started playing
Back in 2015, during the boring period between Christmas and New Year, I decided to try out a Star Wars ... [Read more...]
End of Year thoughts
Sometimes it’s worth making New Year resolutions… A year ago I made one for 2017 to start an R blog using RMarkdown and Jekyll static sites. At the time, I didn’t even know git that well, had no clue what static sites are and was mostly oblivious to the ... [Read more...]
Downtime Reading
Not everyone has the luxury of taking some downtime at the end the year, but if you do have some free time, you may enjoy something on my short list of downtime reading. The books and articles here are not exactly “light reading”, nor are they literature for cuddling by ...
Working with PDFs – scraping the PASS budget
Using tabulizer we’re able to extract information from PDFs so it comes in really handy when people publish data as a PDF! This post takes you through using tabulizer and tidyverse packages to scrape and clean up some budget data from PASS, an association for the Microsoft Data Platform ... [Read more...]
Adding bananas from the commandline (extending the oomsifier)
Sometimes you just want to add bananas from the commandline. Previously
I created a small script that takes an image and adds a dancing banana to the bottom left of the image. I wanted to make an API too, but that will have to wait till next year.... [Read more...]
cyclic riddle [not in NYC!]
In the riddle of this week on fivethirtyeight, the question is to find the average number of rounds when playing the following game: P=6 players sitting in a circle each have B=3 coins and with probability 3⁻¹ they give one coin to their right or left side neighbour, or dump the ...
Shiny plots PDF export
Sometimes it is useful to build a pdf export option into a Shiny app. I built a basic app at first (every important notes was included as comment) to show […] [Read more...]
Announcing rquery
We are excited to announce the rquery R package. rquery is Win-Vector LLC‘s currently in development big data query tool for R. rquery supplies set of operators inspired by Edgar F. Codd‘s relational algebra (updated to reflect lessons learned from working with R, SQL, and dplyr at big ... [Read more...]
Getting started with dplyr in R using Titanic Dataset
dplyr is one of the most popular r-packages and also part of tidyverse that’s been developed by Hadley Wickham. The mere fact that dplyr package is very famous means, it’s one of the most frequently used. Being a data scientist is not always about creating sophisticated models but ... [Read more...]
17 #rstats Tweets From 2017
It has undoubtedly been a busy year in the R -and, much broader, the data science- community. As the year is drawing to a close, I'd would like to take the time to look back at the moments that were most important, fun, relevant, ... to the R community.
In today's ... [Read more...]
17 #rstats Tweets From 2017
It has undoubtedly been a busy year in the R -and, much broader, the data science- community. As the year is drawing to a close, I'd would like to take the time to look back at the moments that were most important, fun, relevant, ... to the R community.
In today's ... [Read more...]
Determine relationship between census geographic entities with totalcensus package
This is an application example of totalcensus package.
The geographic hierarchy primer in Census 2010 summary file 1 technical documentation displays the relationship between geographic entities. The lower one of the two entities connected by a line is entirely within the boundary of the upper one. For example, a county subdivision is ...
Welcome!
Welcome to my blog! A brief introduction to me is on the About page - head over there now before reading on!
So I’ve been a Data Scientist for about 6 months now and already I feel like I’ve been on quite a journey. Below is a summary of ... [Read more...]
Custom progress bars for RcppProgress
RcppProgress
is a tool to help you monitor the execution time of your C++ code, by
providing a way to interrupt the execution inside the C++ code, and also to
display a progress bar indicative of the state of your computation. Additionally,
it is com... [Read more...]
Visualising US Voting Records with shinydashboard
Introducing adavis
My second ever post on this blog was on introducing adamap, a Shiny app that maps Americans for Democratic Action voting scores (the so-called Liberal Quotient) between 1947-2015. It was built with highcharter, and hence it was nicely interactive but quite slow. I wanted to switch to another ...
About
My name is Paul Oldham, I hold a PhD in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics and I’m the lead at One World Analytics.
My major interest is the conservation of biodiversity and the rights of indigenous peoples. For much of the 1990s and into the 2000s ... [Read more...]
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