This post was written in collaboration with Almog Simchon (@almogsi) and Shachar Hochman (@HochmanShachar). Go follow them. The fictional simplicity of Generalized Linear Models Who doesn’t love GLMs? The ingenious idea of taking a response level ...

This post was written in collaboration with Almog Simchon (@almogsi) and Shachar Hochman (@HochmanShachar). Go follow them. The fictional simplicity of Generalized Linear Models Who doesn’t love GLMs? The ingenious idea of taking a response level variable (e.g. binary or count) and getting some link function magic to ...

Hello readers, today we have part 2 of this cricket moneyball series. If you missed the first one its here: https://wordpress.com/view/theparttimeanalyst.com In it I looked at calculating the Pythagorean win percentage for each team in the IPL and then moving that forward to calculating the how ...

I’m one of the few people that actually still has – and uses – a Last.fm account. I say still, I’m one of the few who ever had one. I’ve been playing around with some APIs for the first time lately and thought I’d check out the ...

In this post, We’ll learn how to take analyse your Android Smartphone usage data. Steps: Download your MyActivity Data from Google Takeout - https://takeout.google.com/ (after Selecting json format - instead of the default html format) When the download is available, save the zip file and unzip ...

This blog post shows how to make bar plots and area charts. It’s mostly a list of recipes, indented for myself. These are plots I have often to do in reports and would like to have the code handy somewhere. Maybe this will be helpful to some of you ...

The New York Times has produced some really great maps and plots in its efforts to track the coronavirus in the U.S. One plot in particular that caught my attention is the histogram (actually more like a bar plot) of new cases with a 7-day average l...

Bayesian statistics is centered on constructing certain assumptions about how the probability of an event is distributed, and then adjusting that belief as new information comes in. It can be more involved to construct a Bayesian model as opposed to the “look at many things in aggregate” approach used in ...

As an economist without formal training in epidemiology I have done my best to leave the modelling up to the experts. But, the world as shut down around me and my life is suddenly so much more complicated and I have to wonder, is this COVID thing as dangerous as ...

The United States Centers for Disease Control (CDC from now on) has setup two new public surveillance resources for COVID-19. Together, COVIDView and COVID-NET provide similar weekly surveillance data as FluView does for influenza-like illnesses (ILI). The COVIDView resources are HTML tables (O_O) and, while the COVID-NET interface provides ...

Learn how to schedule robust data extraction with Cron and Docker containers. The schema of the public live data set on Google Big Query we are going to extractThis article was also published on https://www.r-bloggers.com/. This is part two of a multi article series on building and ...

Today, we'll start digging into the wonderful world of joins! The tidyverse offers several different types of joins between two datasets, X and Y: left_join - keeps all rows from X and adds columns from Y to any that match cases in X; if there is no matching record ...

Today I’m revisiting an older blog post on our package lconnect, which is available in CRAN (here). If you want to learn about the available connectivity metrics check this post. It is intended to be a very simple approach to derive landscape connectivity metrics. Many of these metrics come ...