Motivation A couple of years ago I moved house from Wordpress to Blogdown. It’s proved to be a much less stressful life and I plan to stay. Hugo Academic served me well, but sometimes you just need a fresh coat of p...

The Smoke, to use London’s nickname, has 32 boroughs plus the central business district known as the City of London. What does Cluster Analysis tell us about the characteristics that bind them? library(tidyverse) library(tidymodels) librar...

Are the distinct residential property bands of 3 decades ago becoming less so? Over the years, urban properties have been added to and divided up. And two streets of equal attractiveness, and with equivalently-banded properties, may have diverged as neighbourhoods evolved. Whilst properties can and do move to higher or lower ...

The Natural History Museum began recording cetacean (whales, dolphins and porpoises) strandings in 1913. I’d like to explore this 1913-1989 dataset. library(tidyverse) library(tidymodels) library(probably) library(finetune) library(textrecipes) library(stopwords) library(wesanderson) library(kableExtra) library(clock) library(glue) library(janitor) library(vip) library(tictoc) library(doParallel) registerDoParallel(...

Reading news articles on the will-they-won’t-they post-Brexit trade negotiations with the EU sees days of optimism jarred by days of gloom. Do negative news articles, when one wants a positive outcome, leave a deeper impression? Is it ...

The Goldilocks principle has its origins in a children’s story about a girl who tastes the bowls of porridge left by three bears. She prefers the one that is neither too hot nor too cold, but is just right. When it comes to investing in stock...

Covid-19 began battering the financial markets in 2020 Which sectors are faring best? I’ll compare each sector in the S&P 500 with the overall market. Baselining each at 100% as of February 19th, we’ll see which were the first to rec...

After reading up on Blogdown, I decided to take the plunge and leave Wordpress for a quieter life in Blogdown. Motivation My former site looked pretty good. But it was expensive to maintain. I was spending more than I wishe...

Each project closes with a table summarising the R tools used. By visualising my most frequently used packages and functions I get a sense of where I may most benefit from going deeper and keeping abreast of the latest package versions I may also s...