“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily complex or inefficient.” This is how the Wikipedia page on overengineering starts. It is the diligent engineer who wants to ... [Read more...]

“Overengineering is the act of designing a product to be more robust or have more features than often necessary for its intended use, or for a process to be unnecessarily complex or inefficient.” This is how the Wikipedia page on overengineering starts. It is the diligent engineer who wants to ... [Read more...]

A few weeks ago, Miles McBain toke us for a tour through his project organisation in this blogpost. Not surprisingly given Miles’ frequent shoutouts about the package, it is completely centered around drake. About a year ago on twitter, he convinced me to take this package for a spin. I ... [Read more...]

Two years ago, I wrote about meta-learning to fight imposter feelings. In this blog I made a distinction between impostering because you don’t feel you are up to the job, and because you feel you ought to know something which you don’t. The meta-learning blog focuses on how ... [Read more...]

Two years ago, I wrote about meta-learning to fight imposter feelings. In this blog I made a distinction between impostering because you don’t feel you are up to the job, and because you feel you ought to know something which you don’t. The meta-learning blog focuses on how ... [Read more...]

Last week I did an analysis of gold diggers at the Olympics. Here I take you along how I scraped the data from wikepedia and subsequently used the tools of the tidyverse to get the data in a format in which they can be analyzed. You are invited to copy-paste ... [Read more...]

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Great effort has recently been made to encourage also the not-so-experienced to jump into the water and blog about data science. Some of the community’s hot shots gracefully draw attention to blogs of first-times on twitter to give them extra exposure. Most of the blogger newbies write about an ... [Read more...]

Recently, there has been a lot of attention for the imposter syndrome. Even seasoned programmers admit they suffer from feelings of anxiety and low self-esteem. Some share their personal stories, which can be comforting for those suffering in silence. I focus on a method that helped me grow confidence in ... [Read more...]