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It took me long time to muster the motivation to write this post. I greedily dreamed of putting something together that would unveil the secret to crypto trading while amassing a ...
OK, I’m sorry for the clickbait title. But I really do think a lot of the insights in this guide are trivial and very easy to understand yet surprisingly unknown to many people.1 In this guide we will discuss how to lose weight or solve (almost) any other kind ...
This year, I made a cognizant push to read more frequently and consistently.
I think I was successful, definitely improving over the previous year, and I finished 25 books this year.
Below is a review of my favorite books from this year in order of how... [Read more...]
In previous years, when it gets to the end of the year, I’ve written blog posts about
reflecting on a year of #TidyTuesday data visualisations, or
making your own #RStats Wrapped in the style of SpotifyWrapped. This year, I wanted to reflect on...
In the realm of business and leadership, one statistical phenomenon often goes unrecognized yet significantly influences our understanding of performance and success. This is the concept of reversion to the mean. This seemingly simple statistical occurrence can profoundly impact how we perceive management strategies, leadership effectiveness, and even the fate ...
My shiny app Finding Economics Articles with Data contains meanwhile over 8000 economic articles with replication packages. You can use it here:
https://ejd.econ.mathematik.uni-ulm.de
Some of the data on articles and file types in the reproduction packages can be downloaded as a zipped SQLite database from my ... [Read more...]
Introduction
Hey there, fellow R enthusiasts! Today, we’re diving into the realm of time series, where data dances along the temporal dimension. To join this rhythmic analysis, we’ll first learn how to convert our trusty data frames into time se... [Read more...]
Interoperability was a key theme in open-source data languages in 2023. Ongoing innovations in
Arrow (a language-agnostic in-memory standard for data storage), growing adoption of
Quarto (the language-agnostic heir apparent to R Markdown), and even p... [Read more...]
Today, together with a friend who is looking to get into data analytics, I started
doing the 100 days of Python
challenge at Replit.
I thought it would be a good idea to do the challenges in R, because why not. :)
So, I am at day 2 (whoohooo I did two ... [Read more...]
Introduction
Ready to journey through time with R? Buckle up, because we’re about to explore the art of visualizing time-dependent data, known as time series analysis. Whether you’re tracking monthly sales patterns or analyzing yearly climate tr...
Last year, Julia Silge, co-organizer of the Salt Lake City R User Group discussed the group’s plans to meld in-person and online activities with the R Consortium. This year, Andrew...
The post Salt Lake City R User Group’s Success Story: Blending In-Person and Online Events appeared first on ...
n the world of programming, where complexity often intertwines with the need for efficiency, there exists a practice as ancient as it is modern: memoization. This concept, akin to the meticulous art of typesetting in the days of yore, stands as a testa...
Introduction
Time series analysis is a powerful tool in the hands of a data scientist or analyst. It allows us to uncover patterns, trends, and insights hidden within temporal data. In this blog post, we’ll explore how to create a time series in...
# 141–142Puzzles:PQ_141: content filePQ_142: content fileLast time I noted that usually PQ Puzzles are focused on times and dates. And… it confirms this week. Lets count it.PQ_141Rolling averages and other rolling calculations are very useful concepts ...
Puzzles no. 349–353PuzzlesAuthor: ExcelBIPuzzles:#349: content file#350: content file#351: content file#352: content file#353: content fileLet dig in those numbers.Puzzle #349In this puzzle we have to translate “normal” (Arabic) numbers into Roman nume...
Introduction
The Lévy distribution, together with the Normal and Cauchy distribution,
belongs to the class of stable distributions, and it is among the only
three distributions for which the density can be derived in a closed
form. The density func...
Dowload data from R-Universe API, in order to understand a little bit more how many times couples cheat on each other. Descriptive analytics, interpretability and prediction intervals using conformal prediction. [Read more...]
Dear Followers of the YoungStatS project, Dear All!
It has been another intense year for our project, including 4 novel One World YoungStatS webinars, 12 blogposts from leading authors in various areas of statistics and data science, probability an...