Introduction Often when scraping data, websites will ask a user to enter a postal code to get the locations near it. If you are interested in collecting data on locations in Canada for an entire Province or the entire province from a site, it might be hard to find a ...

Candlestick plots are something you see regularly when dealing with stocks. Whether you are an investor, an analyst or even an outsider, this type of chart always in interesting to look at. In this brief blog, I’m going to share a custom function I made for making a candlestick ...

Introduction As surprising as it may sound, many new R programmers are unaware of Base R syntax and the powerful functions that come with it- many of which do what functions from packages like dplyr and the rest of the tidyverse do. In this short blog post I am going ...

Introduction The story of the Donner-Reed party is one of the more tragic stories of the American Pioneers. The story is of a group of families and individuals who migrated to California on a wagon train from Midwestern America. The group initially traveled via the Oregon Trail but then opted ...

Introduction The Hosmer-Lemeshow test (HL test) is a goodness of fit test for binary classification models which tells how well data fits a given model. Specifically, the HL test calculates if the observed event rates match the expected event rates in population subgroups and could be used as a supporting ...

Its been a while since I last posted anything on my blog, so I thought I would share an update. Recently, I had the opportunity to present for my midterm examination a deep learning framework of my choosing. I chose to give a talk on (you guessed it!) convolutional neural ...

I’ve really been enjoying the weekly data sets that the R4DS community has been putting out every Tuesday as part of the Tidy Tuesday project. In my previous blog I had a blast exploring the “Coffee Ratings” data set and putting out a YouTube video to share the ...

Introduction Around four years ago I was given a copy of Time Magazine’s specialty issue on Coffee together with a French press as a gift. At the time, I was satisfied with a regular instant cup of joe and did not know much about the vastness and culture of ...

Since April 2018 the R4DS community has been putting out unique datasets as part of its “Tidy Tuesday” series, which are open to explore and to hone your skills as a data scientist. I know I’m quite late to the party, but now that I have some time I ...

Introduction In light of starting my YouTube channel (shameless plug, I know) on working on a series of Exploring data with R I thought I would write some blogs about it and share my experiences. Often when I’m asked what my go-to language is for data science, my response ...

Well, it turns out that my last blog that R was over 220 times faster than Python got a lot of (constructive) criticism saying that I wasn’t using “best practices” with Python, which was why my Python code was so slow. This is a totally acceptable critique; thus, I’ve ...