Articles by @aschinchon

The Meeting Point Locator

January 16, 2017 | @aschinchon

Hi Hillary, It’s Donald, would you like to have a beer with me in La Cabra Brewing, in Berwyn, Pensilvania? (Hypothetical utilization of The Meeting Point Locator) Finding a place to have a drink with someone may become a difficult task. It is quite common that one of them ...

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Three Shiny Apps to Celebrate the Beauty of Maths

December 12, 2016 | @aschinchon

Mathematics knows no races or geographic boundaries; for mathematics, the cultural world is one country (David Hilbert) One of the best decisions I took this year related with this blog was to move it to my own self-hosted domain using WordPress.org. It allows to me, for example, to embed ... [Read more...]

The Somnambulist and Pi

December 1, 2016 | @aschinchon

How wary we are of something warm and unborn. Something calmly by zero will divide (Unbegotten, The Somnambulist) Some time ago, I assumed the mission to draw a plot for the cover of the new album of The Somnambulist, a music band from Berlin. They wanted a circlization of Pi, ...

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Bayesian Blood

November 17, 2016 | @aschinchon

The fourth, the fifth, the minor fall and the major lift (Hallelujah, Leonard Cohen) Next problem is extracted from MacKay’s Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms: Two people have left traces of their own blood at the scene of a crime. A suspect, Oliver, is tested and found to ...

$p(H|D)=\dfrac{p(H)p(D|H)}{p(D)}$

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Visualizing the Daily Variability of Bitcoin with Quandl and Highcharts

October 4, 2016 | @aschinchon

Lay your dreams, little darling, in a flower bed; let that sunshine in your hair (Where the skies are blue, The Lumineers) I discovered this nice visualization some days ago. The author is also the creator of Highcharter, an incredible R wrapper for Highcharts javascript libray and its modules. I ... [Read more...]

The Ex Libris Generator

February 1, 2016 | @aschinchon

Go ahead stomp your feet on the floorboards Clap your hands if that’s really what you came here for (Heaven, The Milk Carton Kids) Inspired by curves created by the harmonograph, I have done a Shiny app to generate random images that you can personalize and use as an ...