In my last post on Bookdown, I mentioned using writing environments other than RStudio to work on non-code text sections. As I recommended in that post, I’ve been using iA Writer as my main text editor. It’s a great plain editor - I&rsquo...

Purpose The goal of this post is to source and analyze Twitter posts and followers for a given Twitter account (“handle”) using R. We will identify tweets with the most likes and retweets, as well as posting trends over time. We will also map the geographic distribution of Twitter followers ...

Missing data imputation in Machine Learning pipelines Easy missing data imputation with NADIA and mlr3 in Machine Learning pipelines Source: pixabay.comWhy do we need NADIA? Machine learning is an important part of working in R. Packages like mlr3 simplify the whole process. Its no need to manually split data ...

Shiny Website | Github | LinkedIn Introduction Guns and gun ownership have long become one of the most emblematic features of the United States, both in popular media and in policy. The vast majority of information pertaining to firearms has come to us translated through disparate, often politically partisan sources, rendering analysis ...

Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks Dec 02: How to get started with Azure Databricks Dec 03: Getting to know the workspace and Azure Databricks platform Dec 04: Creating your first Azure Databricks cluster Dec 05: Understanding Azure Databricks cluster architecture, workers,…Read more ›

I have been involved with data crunching for 30 years, and, due to my age, I see myself as a dinosaur within the R-users community. I must admit, I’m rather slow to incorporate new paradigms in my programming workflow … I’m pretty busy and the time ...

I have been involved with data crunching for 30 years, and, due to my age, I see myself as a dinosaur within the R-users community. I must admit, I’m rather slow to incorporate new paradigms in my programming workflow … I’m pretty busy and the time I s...

Classify penguins with nnetsauce's MultitaskClassifier

Series of Azure Databricks posts: Dec 01: What is Azure Databricks Dec 02: How to get started with Azure Databricks Dec 03: Getting to know the workspace and Azure Databricks platform Dec 04: Creating your first Azure Databricks cluster Dec 05: Understanding Azure Databricks cluster architecture, workers,…Read more ›

Figure 1: Average Single Family Homes in Towns of Connecticut 1999-2018 Introduction Though losing ground in recent years, Connecticut has long had some of the highest average incomes and home prices in the country. Within the State, some towns have had significantly higher selling prices than others (shown in chart above). ...

As you may have heard there’s a global pandemic going on. One of the more minor impacts of that pandemic has been the disruption of athletics, including swimming. In this post we’re going to compare results from the New York State Section V girls championships conducted this in ...