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IntroductionPeople are weird. And if there's anything that's greater collective proof of this fact than Reddit, you'd be hard pressed to find it.I tend to put reddit in the same bucket as companies like Google, Amazon and Netflix, where they have enoug... [Read more...]

IntroductionIn case you've been living under a rock, there's been a lot of chatter in the financial world late about the price of oil going down. Way, way, down. So much so that the Bank of Canada cut interest rates. What crazy times are these we live in? I thought ... [Read more...]

IntroductionI was having a conversation with someone I know about weather forecasts the other day and it went something like this:"Yes, their forecasts are really not very good. They really need to work on improving them.""Well, yes, I think they're ok... [Read more...]

IntroductionSo I've been thinking a lot lately. Well, that's always true. I should say, I've been thinking a lot lately about the blog. When I started this blog I was very much into the whole quantified self thing, because it was new to me, I liked the... [Read more...]

Introduction Lately I was trying to put together some 2D histograms in R and found that there are many ways to do it, with directions on how to do so scattered across the internet in blogs, forums and of course, Stackoverflow.As such I thought I'd give each a go ... [Read more...]

nIntroductionnI work in consulting. If you're a consultant at a certain type of company, agency, organization, consultancy, whatever, this can sometimes mean travelling a lot.nnMany business travellers 'in the know' have heard the old joke that if you want to stay at any type of hotel anywhere in the ... [Read more...]

A little while back there was an article in blogTO about how a reddit user had used data from Toronto's Open Data initiative to produce a rather cool-looking map of all the locations of all the traffic signals here in the city.It's neat because as the author on blogTO ... [Read more...]

colorRampPalette is a very useful function in R for creating colors vectors to use as the palette, or to pass as an argument to a plotting function; however, a weakness lies in that it disregards the alpha channel of the colors passed to it when creating the new vector.I ... [Read more...]