I would like to take the time to mention the r-bloggers site. It is a vast collection of Blogs on everything that has to do will the R language. I would very much like to contribute to their work with this blog. Just to keep it interesting, I wo...

Introduction: functions To understand Monads, I think it’s useful to first think about functions; why do we use functions? Why don’t we simply write scripts with the required operations one after the other? For instance, to compute the average ...

Introduction Geo-spatial analysis and visualizations is a powerful tool for providing insight bringing an idea or a result in a more tangible manner. Oftentimes, we are only interested in a specific points or we wan to classify the data we have by a larger location it belongs to. In this ...

This post shows how to use rjags R package to perform Bayesian MCMC estimation. As an example, we select a multiple linear regression but rjags can handle lots of highly non-linear models so that it can be extended to various modelings includ...

Motivation A couple of years ago I moved house from Wordpress to Blogdown. It’s proved to be a much less stressful life and I plan to stay. Hugo Academic served me well, but sometimes you just need a fresh coat of p...

The daffodils are out, the sun is shining(ish), spring is in the air! And that means that it’s time to start planning for the conference season. This year we’ll be treated to a lot more in person ...

Hello, this is a new series which I will be analysing the data from Friday practice at the Grand Prix. The focus is going to be on strategy so key to a Formula 1 race. This is the first version of this analysis, lookout for more information on future races Tyre ...

Enes Gencer is a lead data scientist at Doktar and a graduate of Tilburg University (Research Master, Economics). Enes’ interests include data science problems in Economics, Finance, and Agriculture. Introduction Inflation is a hot topic for both globally and in Turkey nowadays. Inspired by Rami Krispin, I reverse engineered his ...