Spinning Pins
Condenado a estar toda la vida, preparando alguna despedida (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) I live just a few minutes from the Spanish National Museum of Science and Technology (MUNCYT), where I use...continue reading.
Category: Rstats
Marginal Effects for (mixed effects) regression models #rstats
ggeffects (CRAN, website) is a package that computes marginal effects at the mean (MEMs) or representative values (MERs) for many different models, including mixed effects or Bayesian models. One of...continue reading.
Extracting data from news articles: Australian pollution by postcode
The recent ABC News article Australia’s pollution mapped by postcode reveals nation’s dirty truth is interesting. It contains a searchable table, which is useful if you want to look up...continue reading.
Flowers for Julia
No hables de futuro, es una ilusión cuando el Rock & Roll conquistó mi corazón (El Rompeolas, Loquillo y los Trogloditas) In this post I create flowers inspired in the...continue reading.
Is the answer to everything Gaussian?
Abstract: As an applied statistician you get in touch with many challenging problems in need of a statistical solution. Often, your client/colleague already has a working solution and just wants...continue reading.
Crochet Patterns
¡Ay que ver cómo se estropean los cuerpos! (Pilar, my beloved grandmother) My grandmother was a master of sewing. When she was young, she worked as dressmaker, and her profession...continue reading.
How to apply a function to a matrix/tibble
How to apply a function to a matrix/tibblecontinue reading.
Tweetable Mathematical Art With R
Sin ese peso ya no hay gravedad Sin gravedad ya no hay anzuelo (Mira cómo vuelo, Miss Caffeina) I love messing around with R to generate mathematical patterns. I always...continue reading.
The Hawkes Hand
Thanks to @LukeBornn & Tim Swartz, I had the opportunity to present the #HawkesHand🔥🏀at #CASSIS18 . I learned a lot, had a hell of a time & met some great...continue reading.
How Do We Draw a Line?
She dreams in colour, she dreams in red, can’t find a better man (Better Man, Pearl Jam) Today I bring another experiment based on The Quick Draw! Data from Google, one of...continue reading.
Judging Freehand Circle Drawing Competitions
Abstract: In 2007 Alexander Overwijk went viral with his ‘Perfect Circle’ video. The same year a World Freehand Circle Drawing Championship was organized, which he won. In this post we...continue reading.
Cucumber time, food on a 2D plate / plane
Introduction It is 35 degree Celsius out side, we are in the middle of the ‘slow news season’, in many countries also called cucumber time. A period typified by the...continue reading.
Amazon’s Hanging Cable Problem (Golden Gate Edition)
Abstract: In this post we use R’s capabilities to solve nonlinear equation systems in order to answer an extension of the hanging cable problem to suspension bridges. We then use...continue reading.
Tutorial instalación R y RStudio
Este tutorial tiene como propósito hacer el set-up inicial para empezar a desarrollar modelos machine learning en increíble lenguaje R.continue reading.
Just use a scatterplot. Also, Sydney sprawls.
Sydney’s congestion at ‘tipping point’ blares the headline and to illustrate, an interactive chart with bars for city population densities, points for commute times and of course, dual-axes. Yuck. OK,...continue reading.
Using leaflet, just because
I love it when researchers take the time to share their knowledge of the computational tools that they use. So first, let me point you at Environmental Computing, a site...continue reading.
Twitter coverage of the useR! 2018 conference
In summary: useR! the conference for users of R was held in Brisbane earlier this month it sounded like a lot of fun and here’s an analysis of tweets that...continue reading.
World Income, Inequality and Murder
Abstract: We follow up on last weeks post on using Gapminder data to study the world’s income distribution. In order to assess the inequality of the distribution we compute the...continue reading.
Marginal Effects for Regression Models in R #rstats #dataviz
Regression coefficients are typically presented as tables that are easy to understand. Sometimes, estimates are difficult to interpret. This is especially true for interaction or transformed terms (quadratic or cubic...continue reading.
Factfulness: Building Gapminder Income Mountains
Abstract: We work out the math behind the so called income mountain plots used in the book "Factfulness" by Hans Rosling and use these insight to generate such plots using...continue reading.
