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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.