Data discovery: seasonal speed
Just writing this one quickly as it’s been hanging around my browser tabs for weeks… I wrote Taking steps (in XML) almost 7 years ago and once in a while, I...continue reading.
Author: nsaunders
Price’s Protein Puzzle: 2023 update
One of the joys (?) of having been online for…quite some time now…is watching topics reappear every few years or so. So what’s new? In terms of English word matches:...continue reading.
The “curse of the bye” revisited
A while ago we looked at Geelong and the curse of the bye. And since the AFL media have outdone themselves this year with “curse of the bye” articles: see...continue reading.
Has your knowledge stopped updating?
Some years ago I read an article – I forget where – describing how our general knowledge often becomes frozen in time. Asked to name the tallest building in the...continue reading.
Editing metadata in trail camera images using R, magick and exiftool
I have a new hobby: camera traps, also known as trail cameras. Strapped to trees in my local bushland they sit in wait, firing automatically when triggered by a passing...continue reading.
Using R to detect the pressure wave from the 2022 Hunga Tonga eruption in personal weather station data
It seems like an age ago, but in fact it was only mid-January 2022 when this happened: The answers are yes and yes again. One excellent source of weather station...continue reading.
Using R/fitzRoy to ask: how many times a V/AFL team with the same lineup has played together?
If you sit in the intersection of “likes Australian Rules football / finds sport statistics interesting / is on Twitter”, you’ve probably come across Swamp. One of his recent tweets...continue reading.
Enhancement of old colour photographs using Generative Adversarial Networks
It’s almost Christmas, I haven’t posted anything in a while and I see that WordPress has an Image Compare feature, so let’s have some colourful fun. When I’m not at...continue reading.
Gene names, data corruption and Excel: a 2021 update
It’s an old favourite of this blog, isn’t it. We had Gene name errors and Excel: lessons not learned (2012). Followed by Data corruption using Excel: 12+ years and counting...continue reading.
How I resurrected my ancient PhD thesis using R/bookdown (and some other tools)
I’ve long admired the look of publications generated using the R bookdown package, and thought it would be fun and educational to publish one myself. The problem is that I...continue reading.
Florence Nightingale’s “rose charts” (and others) in ggplot2
It’s been a while. I hope you are all well. Shall we make some charts? About this time last year, one of my life-long dreams came true when I was...continue reading.
Debuting in a VFL/AFL Grand Final is rare
When Marlion Pickett runs onto the M.C.G for Richmond in the AFL Grand Final this Saturday, he’ll be only the sixth player in 124 finals to debut on the big...continue reading.
Extracting Sydney transport data from Twitter
The @sydstats Twitter account uses this code base, and data from the Transport for NSW Open Data API to publish insights into delays on the Sydney Trains network. Each tweet...continue reading.
Twitter coverage of the useR! 2019 conference
Very briefly: Last week was useR! conference time again, coming to you this time from Toulouse, France I’ve retrieved 8 318 tweets that mention #user2019 and run them through my...continue reading.
Can random forest provide insights into how yeast grows?
I’m not saying this is a good idea, but bear with me. A recent question on Stack Overflow [r] asked why a random forest model was not working as expected....continue reading.
Geelong and the curse of the bye
This week we return to Australian Rules Football, the R package fitzRoy and some statistics to ask – why can’t Geelong win after a bye? (with apologies to long-time readers...continue reading.
Mapping the Vikings using R
The commute to my workplace is 90 minutes each way. Podcasts are my friend. I’m a long-time listener of In Our Time and enjoyed the recent episode about The Danelaw....continue reading.
How long since your team scored 100+ points? This blog’s first foray into the fitzRoy R package
When this blog moved from bioinformatics to data science I ran a Twitter poll to ask whether I should start afresh at a new site or continue here. “Continue here”,...continue reading.
This is not normal(ised)
“Sydney stations where commuters fall through gaps, get stuck in lifts” blares the headline. The story tells us that: Central Station, the city’s busiest, topped the list last year with...continue reading.
Using parameters in Rmarkdown
Nothing new or original here, just something that I learned about quite recently that may be useful for others. One of my more “popular” code repositories, judging by Twitter, is...continue reading.
