As I’ve started working on more complicated machine learning projects, I’ve leaned into the tidymodels approach. Tidymodels is a highly modular approach, and I felt it reduced the number of errors, especially when evaluating many machine models an...

It is Day 4 of the #30DayChartChallenge. More info can be found at the challenge’s Github page. Today’s theme is history. But this is a subtheme of “comparisions”, so I’d like to avoid doing a simple time series. I decided to look at the endangered species list the ...

It is Day 3 of the #30DayChartChallenge. More info can be found at the challenge’s Github page. Today’s theme is flora and fauna. I found a trove of fascinating data at Global Assessment of Reptile Distributions. I chose the dataset on body size/ mass from the paper: “Different solutions ...

When I looked at Twitter this morning, my feed was filled with amazing charts. Apparently, April is month for the #30DayChartChallenge. More info can be found at the challenge’s Github page. Each day, the challenge specifies a type of chart, but n...

Self-Guided Learning: The Ever Evolving Wordle Guess Generator The best way to learn a programming language is to code. Obvious, but sometimes it can be daunting to start a project when you are a novice. Influenced by my time at a start-up, I’ve ...

This is the current version of the word game guesser. I discussed how I used this project to hone my coding skills in the companion blog post to this one. I’m not going to walk through this in much detail, but I’m going to point out some of ...

I’ve recently been playing around with classification models, specifically on data sets with a skewed class distribution. In imbalanced classification problems, one class occurs infrequently. The minority class is often the class of interest (think fraudulent transaction, positive disease diagnosis, or intruder detection). Sometimes these applications are framed as ...

This week’s TidyTuesday is about the timezone data from IANA timezone database. library(tidytuesdayR) library(tidyverse) library(skimr) library(ggthemes) library(gt) library(lubridate) library(skimr) library(lutz) library(maps) library(scales) library(sf) library(ggimage) The history of this database is fascinating. It is used by many computer ...

This week, I participated in my first #TidyTuesday challenge. My goal was to get something out on the day of the challenge rather than perfection. I did notice that the skimr output wasn’t formatted nicely on the webpage. Today, I’m going to delve into the skimr and Quarto ...

This is my first attempt at Tidy Tuesday. The dataset today is about Programming Languages. The sample visualizations are about the comment codes. library(tidytuesdayR) library(tidyverse) library(skimr) library(ggthemes) library(gt) library(ggrepel) Load the data first. There has been some cleaning done as outlined on the TidyTuesday ...