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.
Category: Rstats
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.
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.
The Mondrianomies
The Moonies are up on their mountain, the lunatics have taken over the asylum, waiting on the rapture (The Daily Mail, Radiohead) I have not write any post lately, maybe...continue reading.
Using R to Model UK Residential Property by Giles Heywood
Our first speaker at London R is Giles Heywood who works as Chief Data Scientist at Seven Dials Fund Management…. The post Using R to Model UK Residential Property by...continue reading.
MANOVA in R – How To Implement and Interpret One-Way MANOVA
The R programming language packs a rich set of statistical functions. It makes it easy to do any kind of statistical test, including the analysis of variance. Today you’ll learn...continue reading.
ANOVA in R – How To Implement One-Way ANOVA From Scratch
If you dive deep into inferential statistics, you’re likely to see an acronym ANOVA. It comes in many different flavors, such as one-way, two-way, multivariate, factorial, and so on. We’ll...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.
An R Package for Social Roulette
Abstract: We introduce the R package socialroulette, which is a lightweight package for handling the recurrent problem of assigning individuals into groups of a fixed size. In order to minimize...continue reading.
Long time, no see: Virtual Lunch Roulette
When distributing individuals into groups every week for a virtual social mixer, e.g. using Zoom breakout rooms, it’s boring to end up in a group with someone, who you already met...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.
Age-Structure Adjusted All-Cause Mortality
Abstract: This page is an updated version of the 2020-12-28 blog post Age Stratified All-Cause and COVID-19 Associated Mortality. The post considers the age stratified all-cause and COVID-19 associated mortality...continue reading.
Overcome the technical hurdles of your RStudio environment
We’re delighted to be sponsoring the rstudio::global conference this year. It’s a credit to the community that such events (including our own… The post Overcome the technical hurdles of your RStudio environment...continue reading.
Neighborhoods: Experimenting with Cyclic Cellular Automata
On candy stripe legs the Spiderman comes, softly through the shadow of the evening sun (Lullaby, The Cure) Cellular automata are an inmense source of artistical images. Today, I experimented...continue reading.
