Category: Rstats
Summarising Top 100 UK Climbs: Running Local Language Models with LM Studio and R
Introduction Since my last entry on this blog, the landscape of data science has been massively disrupted by the advent of large language models (LLM). Areas in data science such...continue reading.
Summarising Top 100 UK Climbs: Running Local Language Models with LM Studio and R
Introduction Since my last entry on this blog, the landscape of data science has been massively disrupted by the advent of large language models (LLM). Areas in data science such...continue reading.
AI-Powered Virtual Assistants: Beyond Siri and Alexa
“We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.” ― Alan Turing AI virtual assistants have become indispensable tools for both...continue reading.
Simple custom colour palettes with R ggplot graphs
A simple, yet effective way to set your colour palette in R using ggplot library. After that, we can start “chaining” ggplot graphs. Scatter plot Barchart / Histogram Boxplot 3.14...continue reading.
The Number 1 Thing You Need To Do When Negotiating A Job Offer
Always ask for more than what’s initially offered. I recently read an X post from a CEO of a healthcare startup about how she considered giving a candidate 2.5X the...continue reading.
LinkedIn Releases Their Report on the Top 25 Hottest Jobs in the US in 2024
Looking for a career change in 2024? For those working as Data Scientists, we have breaking news: you are all AI Engineers now. LinkedIn recently released their report on the top 25...continue reading.
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.
Effortless Cool Is A Detailed Process – How To Influence, Tell Better Stories, and Become More Persuasive
Why Attention To Detail Is An Important Trait Many years ago when I lived in Las Vegas, I was walking inside the Miracle Mile Shops at the Planet Hollywood, Las...continue reading.
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.
Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research – An Analysis in R, Python, and Julia
This analysis was co-authored by data scientists, Scott Fisher and Douglas Davila-Pestana. Mr. Fisher developed the Python code for the […] The post Miami-Dade County Public Employee Salary Research –...continue reading.
How to Win a Game (or More) of Super Six
We use simulation to analyse the family dicing game “Super Six”. In particular we show that the person starting the game has a very high chance of winning the game....continue reading.
WebR IS HERE!
WebR 0.1.0 was released! I had been git-stalking George (the absolute genius who we all must thank for this) for a while and noticed the GH org and repos being...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.
The Music of the Spheres
He himself could hear the harmony of the Universe, and understood the music of the spheres, and the stars which move in concert with them, and which we cannot hear...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.
Tupper’s Self Referential Formula in R
Abstract: We implement Tupper’s self-referencing formula in R. This has been done before by others, but the joy was to be able to learn how to do it yourself using...continue reading.
Anthropometric Birthday Cards
Abstract: We visualize children reference populations for height, weight and body mass index by plotting percentiles of the population as a function of age. Besides the epidemiological interest in these...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.
