Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way — Leo Tolstoy Like families, tidy datasets are all alike but every messy dataset is messy in its own way — Hadley Wickham In this post, I’ll be exploring how genealo... [Read more...]

Happy Christmas! The holiday season has got me thinking about how discovering a new R package is like receiving a Christmas gift…you’re not quite sure what’s inside, but you’re hoping it’ll enrich your programming or analysis life in some way! In this short blog post ... [Read more...]

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Some random thoughts… Over the past 6 months I’ve been creating, refining, and delivering a variety of ‘Introduction to R’ training courses. The more I do this, the more I come to the view that not nearly enough is made of taking an ecosystem-oriented view to packages. A good way ... [Read more...]

R became 25 years old last year, and yet it’s only in relatively recent years that the language has really taken off with numerous conferences every year driven by a passionate and vibrant community of users. A large part of this has been driven by a... [Read more...]

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What’s in a name? Despite the potentially grumpy sounding title of this post, this is more a positive reflection of the past two years since I started working in Data Science. I think I’ve come a long way, but there is still so far to to go if ... [Read more...]

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It’s been a while since I’ve posted - mainly because I got myself into a mess with Git and I’ve been putting off trying to sort it out. I’ve been wanting to post about htmlwidgets for a while now, and in my naivity I thought I’... [Read more...]

In a recent sprint, I was faced with the problem of carrying out analysis on data extracted from a database where there were several instances of the same table type and I wanted to do the same tasks on each of them. I know enough about the tidyverse to realise ... [Read more...]

After having some time to ponder the issues I was having in my last post, I’m pleased to say that all three are resolved, or at least partially to my immediate satisfaction. First off, I managed to get Netlify to automatically build my website for me, thanks to the ... [Read more...]

Happy New Year! I’ve spent the time between Christmas and New Year being more productive than I would usually be, trying things out in R, some (relatively) successfully, others…not so much. I thought it would be worth writing about how embarking on Data Science isn’t all plain ... [Read more...]

I thought it was worth posting about how I set up this blog as I had enormous trouble setting it up. I’d never done anything like this before and so some Google searching exposed me to many different technologies, but I had no clue what they did, whi... [Read more...]

How I started playing What are mods?? Laying the groundwork Reading in game data Cleaning it up Let the shenanigans begin!! Attempt 2: Brute force… The eventual resignation… How I started playing Back in 2015, during the boring period between Christmas and New Year, I decided to try out a Star Wars ... [Read more...]

Welcome to my blog! A brief introduction to me is on the About page - head over there now before reading on! So I’ve been a Data Scientist for about 6 months now and already I feel like I’ve been on quite a journey. Below is a summary of ... [Read more...]