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• 2019/10/05
• 1 min read

I gave a talk at the New York R Conference on the API pipeline I set up for figuring out when and where fires happen in New York. You can find video of the talk here.

It’s similar to the …

The Malort Report

• 2019/27/04
• 29 min read

Tweets from the Nemesis twitter by our court stenographers documenting the best tradition ever.

Drake's Plan

• 2019/12/02
• 1 min read

I gave a talk on the drake package for workflow management to the wonderful RLadies of NYC.

In it, we hit the Twitter API to get NYCFireWire tweets, clean the raw tweet data, send the …

On Y2King Myself, or "What Would Marie Kondo Do?"

• 2019/24/01
• 8 min read

This is a fun one and mostly a self-heckle. I’ll set the scene.

It’s Jan 1, 2019, the day after New Years Eve. I realize I’ve made it home with my phone. Nice. 2019 is off to a good start. …

How does {multicolor} actually work?

• 2018/19/07
• 12 min read

Today in R/mildlyinteresting…the multicolor package! It’s built on Gábor Csárdi’s crayon for use in conjunction with Scott Chamberlain’s cowsay. Here’s an example of what it does. …

Catching Kareem

• 2018/13/06
• 12 min read

Lighting round of basketball analysis!

My friend and coworker Brad, who designed this very blog, is a sports fan and curious person. He wanted to know whether Lebron James is on track to …

98% green spaghetti, sliced and chopped

• 2018/15/04
• 18 min read

This is the latest stop in an analysis tour of free-range menu data.

One of the goals of fishing for real recipes is to be able to suss out patterns in how foods are combined and in what …

Monkeys are like Onions

• 2018/25/03
• 14 min read

This is part two of a series on scraping content from the satirical news site The Onion and feeding that content to the newly-spruced up monkeylearn package. Part one deals with the …

Peeling back The Onion

• 2018/25/03
• 21 min read

In this post I’ll programmatically find The Onion article links, scrape them for content, and clean them up into a tidy format. I chose The Onion because while not real news, the site does …

Scraping Together a Recipe, Episode I

• 2018/25/02
• 8 min read

The Internet is full of amazing content. Like these names of actual recipes. Methodology for getting these to follow.