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Just like your mom's chippity chipper recipe - In Data Science, there are numerous instances where different techniques call for the use of different tools. For me, this means hopping between R and python on a weekly basis. I’ve been fortun... [Read more...]

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I have to admit my initial thoughts of deep learning were pessimistic and in order to not succumb to impostor syndrome, I put off learning any new techniques in the growing sub field of machine learning, until recently. After attending & ... [Read more...]

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Project Objective Untappd has some usage restrictions for their API namely not allowing any exploratory of analytics uses, so I’m going to explore tweets of beer and brewery check-ins from the Untappd app to find some implicit trends in how users share their activity. Exploratory Analysis

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Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr) is a famed expert, author and developer in Data Security and the Chief Security Data Scientist at Rapid7. Bob also creates the most deliciously vivid images of his meals documented by the #nom hashtag. I’m going to use a similar method used in my previous projects (... [Read more...]

Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr) is a famed expert, author and developer in Data Security and the Chief Security Data Scientist at Rapid7. Bob also creates the most deliciously vivid images of his meals documented by the #nom hashtag. I’m going to use a similar method used in my previous projects (... [Read more...]

Leveraging tidyverse packages httr, stringr & purrr - Introduction McDonald’s is a nostalgic component of America ?? and a pioneer of fast food operations and real estate ventures, as depicted in the 2016 film, The Founder, about Ray Kroc. As a kid I traveled to different McDonald’s across the east coast ... [Read more...]

Leveraging tidyverse packages httr, stringr & purrr - Introduction McDonald’s is a nostalgic component of America ???????? and a pioneer of fast food operations and real estate ventures, as depicted in the 2016 film, The Founder, about Ray Kroc. As a kid I traveled to different McDonald’s across the east coast ... [Read more...]

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I’m a fan of Chris Albon’s recent project #machinelearningflashcards on Twitter where generalized topics and methodologies are drawn out with key takeaways. It’s a great approach to sharing concepts about machine learning for everyone a... [Read more...]

Statistics + Beer = Comprehension - A goodness of fit test are a collection of statistical techniques used to summarize the differences between observed values and expected values. These tests can be used be used for hypothesis testing, testi... [Read more...]

Understanding my Neighbors with R and Leaflet - I, like many others across the country have been in total shock and mental disarray at the results from the election this past Tuesday. I’m not sure what to make of my fellow Americans voting for an outright racist, sexist, homophobic ... [Read more...]

A shiny flexdashboard project - Open government data portals are essential to transparency and civic education for citizens, and supports the work for data researchers and academics especially in smaller cities such as Hartford, CT. These por... [Read more...]

My first R package on CRAN, ttbbeer - After attending the useR! 2016 R Conference, I felt supercharged and armed with new insights and ideas about how to further contribute to the R community. I met wonderful people in real life (IRL) from twitter and heard interesting case studies about using ... [Read more...]

An ongoing effort to work more efficiently - TL;DR: For the forgetful, IFTTT can be a great way to track your work hours and provide insight about trends through visualization. Manually entering your own timesheet and logging your specific p... [Read more...]

Like most R Programmers, I’m a fan of the R packages that RStudio develops. They recently announced Flexdashboards: Easy interactive dashboards written in RMarkdown. I’m always trying to expand my R skills with side projects so I’ve put... [Read more...]

debugging, reactivity, and designing for the user - Introduction As a programmer you read more code than you write. Keep it readable, commented, consistent and explicit. –Sindre Sorhus, Web Developer & Creator of Pageras Shiny is ... [Read more...]