Better late than never. We finished our last post about The Bachelorette in our Data and Drama series.

We take a look at the winners vs. losers in the race to social media influencer glory!

The transition between The Bachelorettes could not have been more dramatic. We analyze the data and find the truth behind the hit TV show. Please check out our dashboard (built with shiny) at https://stoltzmaniac.shinyapps.io/TheBacheloretteApp/.

A rather boring episode of The Bachelorette can be made more interesting by looking at the data surrounding those who follow it. New Instagram and Twitter feeds play into the race to the top (bottom?). Please check out our dashboard (built with shiny) at https://stoltzmaniac.shinyapps.io/TheBacheloretteApp/.

Since only one man was eliminated this week (for his failure to adequately compliment Clare), this week’s blog post focuses on the suitors’ Instagram accounts. On average, the men have roughly doubled their growth in instagram followers since the show began. Please check out our dashboard (built with shiny) ...

We all love a good love story. In The Bachelor TV Franchise, millions gather to see who will be the lucky winner of the contestant’s heart. But what about those who don’t make it? What do they have in common? Please check out our dashboard (built with shiny) ...

This post is dedicated to my mother - Seinfeld's greatest fan. Seinfeld is a classic TV sitcom. It featured four main characters surrounded by relatively normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill scenarios. In the spirit of Seinfeld, this post will also "be ab...

I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear about how “millennials” want massive amounts of choice, personalization, customization, etc. I’m here to tell ...

Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API in R A little while ago I did a brief tutorial of the Google Vision API using RoogleVision created by Mark Edmonson. I couldn’t find anything similar to that in R for the Microsoft Cognitive Services API so I thought I would give it ...

Exploratory Data Analysis of Tropical Storms in R The disastrous impact of recent hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, generated a large influx of data within the online community. I was curious about the history of hurricanes and tropical storms so I found a data set on data.world and started some ...

Trend of US Immigration Enforcement In the coming months I’ll be digging into the immigration enforcement data posted on data.world. I encourage anyone to take this data and either add to the project or to do something on their own. I will be bringing in external data sources ...

Using the Google Vision API in R Utilizing RoogleVision After doing my post last month on OpenCV and face detection, I started looking into other algorithms used for pattern detection in images. As it turns out, Google has done a phenomenal job with their Vision API. It’s absolutely incredible ...

Face Recognition in R OpenCV is an incredibly powerful tool to have in your toolbox. I have had a lot of success using it in Python but very little success in R. I haven’t done too much other than searching Google but it seems as if “imager” and “videoplayR” ...

Medicare Data – R Shiny App About two weeks ago I created an extremely rough version of an R Shiny Application surrounding Medicare data. Right after publishing the blog post, I received a lot of input for improvement and help from others. Here’s a look a look at the latest ...

Hello R community. if you’re up for some fun tinkering with a Shiny App please join me on a new project. I would love to see some collaboration in designing a Shiny Application which will help people make a decision about a healthcare provider. I have only just begun ...

Rent Prices are Soaring in Most of Colorado Call it gentrification, supply-and-demand, call it whatever you’d like… the fact is, rent prices have gone up in Colorado in the last decade. Chip Oglesby – GitHub – did a nice analysis on the data provided by colorado.gov. Chip’s analysis can ...

What Type of Data Visualization Do You Choose (if any)? Determining whether or not you need a visualization is step one. While it seems silly, this is probably something everyone (including myself) should be doing more often. A lot of times, it seems like a great way to showcase the ...