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Tag Archives: R
Hollywood Walk of Fame
Earlier this month, I read in a Gawker article that Bill Cosby’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame was defiled. This got me wondering if there are other people who have stars on the Walk of Fame who … Continue reading
Posted in Extracurricular
Tagged Hollywood Walk of Fame, R, RStudio, Text Mining, Web Scraping
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Animated Gif with R Code and Dataset
I had such a good time making animated gifs of weather data, I decided to go back for more. Here is an animation of the low temperatures from January 1, to April 1, 2014. See if you can spot a … Continue reading
Posted in Fun with Statistics
Tagged animated gif, dataviz, low temperature, polar vortex, R, visualization, weather
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I Stand Corrected… Or Do I?
Just yesterday I received an email from Dr. Douglas Furton, a Physics Professor at Grand Valley State University. Dr. Furton had read my blog post about One-Handed Solitaire in which I used simulations to find the probability of winning such a game. Finding himself … Continue reading
Posted in Card Games, Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged Bathroom Solitaire, Games, one handed solitaire, Probability, R, Simulations, statistics, StatsFun
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Fun with RStudio, the Internet, Beyonce, and some TV Shows
This week, I had the great privilege of attending the second Computation and Visualization Consortium, led by Danny Kaplan, Randy Pruim, and Nick Horton. I met so many fascinating people, and learned so much in five days, it’s almost as … Continue reading
Posted in Computational Social Sciences, Extracurricular, Fun with Statistics, Statistics
Tagged Beyonce, Bob's Burgers, Breaking Bad, Community, Dangerously In Love, Fun on the Internet, Lyrics, networks, Procrastination, R, RMarkdown, RStudio, Seinfeld, Social Network and Social Media Analysis, The Americans, TV, Web Scraping
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