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eBay Scam?

Last night I fell down the YouTube rabbit hole and ended up watching this video. It shows a coin collector who purchased 5 “random” grab bags from an eBay se...

forestFloor Visualization

A collaborator and I recently sumbitted a manuscript analyzing metabolomic data. Part of the analysis involed building a random forest model for classifying...

Fantasy Football Player Rankings

It’s Thanksgiving, and for many, that means sitting around with the family watching football after eating lots of turkey. It also means the fantasy football...

Sgt. Pepper’s Word Cloud

As my last post hinted at, I’ve been working on scraping Beatles lyrics from the web. I was never really able to fully automate the process since the links ...

Quirky rvest Behavior

I’ve recently started a new project which involves scraping lyrics from the web. As before with the World Cup data, I turned to rvest to obtain the data. How...

World Cup Shiny App

The data for World Cup goal times caused me a bit of a headache, and I was happy to get everything sorted out so I could start exploring something new. Neve...

Scraping World Cup Goal Data

Watching the World Cup over the last couple of weeks has got me wondering several things. Is the stoppage time determination completely arbitrary? What is ...

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World Cup

World Cup Shiny App

The data for World Cup goal times caused me a bit of a headache, and I was happy to get everything sorted out so I could start exploring something new. Neve...

Scraping World Cup Goal Data

Watching the World Cup over the last couple of weeks has got me wondering several things. Is the stoppage time determination completely arbitrary? What is ...

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Web Scraping

Quirky rvest Behavior

I’ve recently started a new project which involves scraping lyrics from the web. As before with the World Cup data, I turned to rvest to obtain the data. How...

Scraping World Cup Goal Data

Watching the World Cup over the last couple of weeks has got me wondering several things. Is the stoppage time determination completely arbitrary? What is ...

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ggplot2

World Cup Shiny App

The data for World Cup goal times caused me a bit of a headache, and I was happy to get everything sorted out so I could start exploring something new. Neve...

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GitHub

That First Blog Post About The Blog

To get things started off, I thought I would explain some of the details about how this site came into existence. I can’t remember coming across any particu...

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Jekyll

That First Blog Post About The Blog

To get things started off, I thought I would explain some of the details about how this site came into existence. I can’t remember coming across any particu...

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Shiny

World Cup Shiny App

The data for World Cup goal times caused me a bit of a headache, and I was happy to get everything sorted out so I could start exploring something new. Neve...

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rvest

Quirky rvest Behavior

I’ve recently started a new project which involves scraping lyrics from the web. As before with the World Cup data, I turned to rvest to obtain the data. How...

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Word cloud

Sgt. Pepper’s Word Cloud

As my last post hinted at, I’ve been working on scraping Beatles lyrics from the web. I was never really able to fully automate the process since the links ...

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Text mining

Sgt. Pepper’s Word Cloud

As my last post hinted at, I’ve been working on scraping Beatles lyrics from the web. I was never really able to fully automate the process since the links ...

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The Beatles

Sgt. Pepper’s Word Cloud

As my last post hinted at, I’ve been working on scraping Beatles lyrics from the web. I was never really able to fully automate the process since the links ...

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Fantasy Football

Fantasy Football Player Rankings

It’s Thanksgiving, and for many, that means sitting around with the family watching football after eating lots of turkey. It also means the fantasy football...

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Random Forest

forestFloor Visualization

A collaborator and I recently sumbitted a manuscript analyzing metabolomic data. Part of the analysis involed building a random forest model for classifying...

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forestFloor

forestFloor Visualization

A collaborator and I recently sumbitted a manuscript analyzing metabolomic data. Part of the analysis involed building a random forest model for classifying...

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