Articles by Art Steinmetz

Predicting Water Quality in New York Harbor

December 4, 2024 | Art Steinmetz

Motivation This is an exercise in using machine learning to predict the level of harmful bacteria in New York Harbor based on environmental factors like tidal conditions, rainfall and location. Among the reasons this is useful is understanding how to rebuild a marine life ecosystem in the harbor, where oysters ...
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The Truth About Tidy Wrappers

April 9, 2024 | Art Steinmetz

These are the packages we will need for this analysis. library(tidyverse) library(data.table) library(dtplyr) library(duckdb) library(duckplyr) library(polars) library(tidypolars) library(arrow) library(tictoc) library(microbenchmark) library(gt) The Tidyverse I love the Tidyverse from Posit.co. The biggest evolution of the R language ecosystem ...
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The Truth About Tidy Wrappers

March 9, 2024 | Art Steinmetz

These are the packages we will need for this analysis. library(tidyverse) library(data.table) library(dtplyr) library(duckdb) library(duckplyr) library(polars) library(tidypolars) library(arrow) library(tictoc) library(microbenchmark) library(gt) The Tidyverse I love the Tidyverse from Posit.co. The biggest evolution of the R language ecosystem ...
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The Truth About Tidy Wrappers

March 9, 2024 | Art Steinmetz

These are the packages we will need for this analysis. library(tidyverse) library(data.table) library(dtplyr) library(duckdb) library(duckplyr) library(polars) library(tidypolars) library(arrow) library(tictoc) library(microbenchmark) library(gt) The Tidyverse I love the Tidyverse from Posit.co. The biggest evolution of the R language ecosystem ...
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Kakhovka Dam Disaster

June 8, 2023 | Art Steinmetz

Some History The war in Ukraine has spawned yet another disaster, the destruction of the dam across the Dnipro river, upstream from Kherson City. This is an ecologial and humanitarian disaster as vast acres of settlements, farmlands and wetlands have been destroyed. This marks the third time a dam in ...
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Animating a Heatmap with Rayshader

May 2, 2023 | Art Steinmetz

Wrangle the Data suppressPackageStartupMessages({ library(tidyverse) library(rayshader) library(gt) library(gifski) }) The best part of any analysis are the visualizations. I couldn’t resist taking the results of our earlier sentiment analysis and turning it into some appealing eye candy. You’ll recall we tried several different approaches to ...
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Switching to Quarto from Blogdown

January 23, 2022 | Art Steinmetz

It all started when I decided to change up my Hugo theme. Up until that point I was happily using the Blogdown add-in for RStudio to initiate new blog posts. At some point the default directory structure for Hugo blogs changed and when I tried to ...
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