May 2018

Uber Optimization: Finding Passengers Faster

May 7, 2018 | Bennett Gelly

Motivation Ridesharing drivers and companies, such as Uber and Lyft, can make more money by filling their cars with passengers for a higher percentage of the time they are on the road. With this in mind, I designed a Shiny app for New York City rideshare drivers that recommends a ...
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Starbucks Around The World

May 7, 2018 | Bruce Chyi

Have you ever traveled abroad to find yourself looking for a Starbucks store?  Be it out of habit or simply the need for that mid-day pick up?  Well, here's a visualization of all the stores around the globe. Did you know there is a total of 25,600 stores globally, of which, 13,508 ... [Read more...]

The Changing Landscape in the NBA

May 7, 2018 | Emanuel Kamali

Motivation As an avid fan of the NBA and NBA technology, one can argue that the landscape of the NBA has transformed in many areas of the sport. From broadcasting to players, to the science of ankle injuries, the NBA is moving into the era of data. Seeing the growth ... [Read more...]

simmer 3.8.0

May 7, 2018 | Iñaki Úcar

The 3.8.0 release of simmer, the Discrete-Event Simulator for R, hit CRAN almost a week ago, and Windows binaries are already available. This version includes two highly requested new features that justify this second consecutive minor release. Attachment of precomputed data Until v3.7.0, the generator was the only means to attach ... [Read more...]

Tidying messy Excel data (Introduction)

May 7, 2018 | Abhijit

[Re-posted from Abhijit’s blog] Personal expressiveness, or how data is stored in a spreadsheet When you get data from a broad research community, the variability in how that data is formatted and stored is truly astonishing. Of course there are the standardized formats that are output from machines, like ...
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RcppGSL 0.3.4

May 7, 2018 | Thinking inside the box

A minor update version 0.3.4 of RcppGSL is now on CRAN. It contains an improved Windows build system (thanks, Jeroen!) and updates the C++ headers by removing dynamic exception specifications which C++11 frowns upon, and the compilers lets us know th... [Read more...]

Visualizing Diabetes Clinical Studies Data

May 6, 2018 | John Yap

Introduction: Diseases are part of human life. We have been dealing with them throughout history: from the outbreak of smallpox in Athens, Greece in 430 BC, to the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has affected the Americas in recent years. Fortunately, modern medicine has helped alleviate the human condition by providing ways ...
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Does Kiva Help Countries Where Credit is Most Needed?

May 6, 2018 | Ben Witte

Using a dataset publicly available on Kaggle, I wanted to determine if loans made through the crowdfunded micro lending platform, Kiva, were available to borrowers in countries where such credit might be most needed. In the course of my research, I came across several key points necessary to keep in ...
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MTA Subway Data

May 6, 2018 | Anthony Parrillo

Have you ever taken a NYC subway, only to find that it took you much longer to get to your destination than you could have imagined? Was walking a faster option than taking the subway between adjacent stops? Perhaps you can recount your own personal horror story. The reliability of ...
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