Articles by MikeJackTzen

The Hawkes Hand

August 1, 2018 | MikeJackTzen

Thanks to @LukeBornn & Tim Swartz, I had the opportunity to present the #HawkesHand??at #CASSIS18 . I learned a lot, had a hell of a time & met some great people #RuffRuff . My Hawkes Hand slides can be viewed here https://t.co/RVkyoNc2IY pic.twitter.com/hPfBcpDhcv — MikeJackTzen (@MKJCKTZN) August 8, 2018 ...

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The 10 Data Science Crack Commandments

March 31, 2018 | MikeJackTzen

It’s the ten crack commandments, what? homie can’t tell me nothing about this code Can’t tell me nothing about these #rstats Number 1, make a function from a script. Everyone knows we’re to busy to be copy/pasting shit http://adv-r.had.co.nz/Functions.html Number 2, ... [Read more...]

Be a BigBallR in #rstats : Stayeth or Switcheth

December 12, 2017 | MikeJackTzen

If you’re a Big Baller, you know when to stayeth in your lane but also when to switcheth lanes. The Big Baller Brand brothers just inked a deal to play professional basketball in Europe. They switched into a different lane to achieve their original goal. The knee-jerk reaction from ... [Read more...]

Weird Al Yankovise() a 2 Chainz Lyric

October 10, 2017 | MikeJackTzen

I have a character string snipped from a lyric by Daniel Son the Necklace Don. Let’s get all Weird Al Yankovic with it. I’ll revise some words with the datzen::yankovise() function. You can swap out words using a dictionary of name-value pairs. Above, we have a bar ... [Read more...]

Get out of my way! Dunk thru #rstats errors like the Big Shaq-istician

October 1, 2017 | MikeJackTzen

Ahh, leaves falling, parents crying, collegicians biking uphill with a bag of in-n-out in between their teeth. Must be the new academic school year! I figured it’s a good time to introduce my work-in-progress datzen package of miscellaneous #rstats functions. You can bee-line straight to the github readme with ...

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Nasty Nas’ Nasty Rubdown via `magick`

March 4, 2017 | MikeJackTzen

We have 2 legends, Biggie Smalls and Nas. At the 1:00 mark, Nasty Nas receives a Nasty Rubdown. Pretty sure this was the inspiration for Boosie’s Wipe Me Down. I made a .gif version using a pen, a tablet, and command line ‘ImageMagick‘. But the resulting FPS was slow, so I ... [Read more...]

Chop It: Look up the Generating Data Frame Columns of a Formula Term

February 16, 2017 | MikeJackTzen

We the moody Gucci, Louis and Pucci men Escada, Prada The chopper it got the Uzi lens Bird’s-eye view The birds I knew, flip birds Bird gangs, it was birds I flew Say you use the base #rstats lm() command lm(data=dat_foo[,c('y','x1','x2... [Read more...]

Bill and Ted Make the best out of a Shi… Stata situation: Rstudio + Rstata + Stata

November 28, 2016 | MikeJackTzen

After rewatching the thanksgiving classic, Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, it reminded me of the history of #Rstats and its current status as the defacto software for general data programming. The most excellent thing about R, is the literate programming options you have. As a data analyst, you are ...

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Use Rstats to Share Google Map Stars with Friends

November 21, 2016 | MikeJackTzen

On my trip to Japan, I took this photo of the stairs leading to the “Rucker Park of Tokyo.” I crossed up some Tokyo cats, they were garbage. That one girl behind the blue pillar was practicing her hip hop power moves. She thought no one could see, but I ...

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Lakers Lent: Chuck should have fasted sooner and Historical Win Trajectories

November 12, 2014 | MikeJackTzen

For the 2015 NBA season, the only exciting Lakers news is the return of the Kobe show and Charles Barkley’s Lakers Lent.The Lakers started the season with 0 wins and 5 losses, amazingly bad. The round mound of rebound started Lakers Lent, fasting until the Lakers won. This week, Chuck finally ... [Read more...]

Bootleg CourtVision with non-proprietary NBA data and [R]

January 27, 2014 | MikeJackTzen

Mike likes Basketball. Mike likes Spatial Data. Mike likes Open Access. I’m a big fan of what Kirk Goldsberry and friends are doing. I’ve been following his work since he hit the scene (Awesome). Let’s make some bootleg CourtVision heatmaps. Nowadays we only see Kobe in black ...