The number , while being an irrational and transcendental number is a central number to which much of mathematics and science at large relies on for many calculations. A whole book can be written on this matter alone, but today we are going to focus on approximating the true value of ...

Finding the expected value of order statistics can be a challenge if one is not privy to certain mathematical “tricks” and techniques. Thankfully, by use of simulation we can have some guidance that can help us realize when we are wrong with our mathematical conclusions and when we are correct. ...

This post was inspired by one of Thomas Neitmann’s posts showing how to write some debugging code in R and Python to automatically search code errors on StackOverflow. Below is a simpler example where we do this with Amazon’s site. In this blog we are going to write ...

Note: Thank you to Andrew Collier for looking this blog post over!! Alot of individuals think that to use R or a programming language at work you need to be a software engineer, data analyst, data scientist etc. This can be discouraging to some who don’t work in this ...

Note: This is an older post originally written as a LinkedIn article I wrote in late May. I have added information about shaping data thanks to Casper Crause using the data.table library. You can see our original correspondence in the comments there (for now) If you dabble in data, ...