The Game of Thrones character, Daenerys Targaryen, suffered a hit to her reputation in the final season of the much-watched HBO series. For the past few years, she has been a crowd favorite--combining brave determination, style, and dragon(s). Many people went a step further in their admiration and named ...

Wikipedia has pages for each day of the year (e.g., January 1, April 25). Each page contains a list of names of famous people with that birthday along with a short description of each person. I wrote an R script to scrape these lists from each wikipedi...

From Wikipedia:  Benford's law, also called the first-digit law, is an observation about the frequency distribution of leading digits in many real-life sets of numerical data. The law states that in many naturally occurring collections of numbers, the leading significant digit is likely to be small... Benford's Law is a ...

Inspired by this clever image, I thought I would whip it up in R.Results:Below is the R code: # Prepare ----------------------------------------------------------------- rm(list=ls());gc() pkg

Inspired by this clever image, I thought I would whip it up in R.Results:Below is the R code: 1: # Prepare ----------------------------------------------------------------- 2: rm(list=ls());gc() 3: pkg