Doodling with Data

PYDATADC2016 WAS HELD FROM OCTOBER 7TH-9TH 2016. Check out the schedule: http://pydata.org/dc2016/schedule/ Here are the links to some of the talks. The talks have been grouped by the ...

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BiggerNumberGame THREEFIVEEIGHT - HOT GAME SHOW RIDDLER¶ This is an attempt at solving this ridder by the folks at 538. This entire post is a Jupyter notebook, and it uses Python (Pandas...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2016/03/538-riddler-hot-new-game-show-computing.html

A SELECT FEW POSTS FROM 2013 Rstudio's Shiny enabled me to try out ideas on the Web. WeatherCompare shinySketch EscherPlot MovieRatings ** Creating Mazes The most visitors came from t...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/12/a-select-few-posts-from-2013-rstudios.html

This year, the world chess championship will be played between Vishwanathan Anand and 22-yo Magnus Carlsen, in Chennai, India from the 9th to the 28th of November. The passions are sure to run s...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/10/anand-versus-carlsen-chennai-2013-what.html

The Karpov vs. Kasparov rivalry holds a special place in the chess world. The idea behind this analysis is simple. If we take their lifetime games, plot the wins, what would it look like? We in...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/08/using-r-to-visualize-karpov-vs-kasparov.html

What are some of the hottest areas of research in Computer Science at the moment (August 2013)? And at which universities is this research being carried out? The answers are subjective by defin...

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One big strength of packages like shiny is the ability to easily vary parameters and view the results, especially in plots. So here’s a small shiny app that I created to learn about reactiv...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/07/using-r-and-shiny-to-create-art.html

USING R AND INTEGER PROGRAMMING TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO FLOWFREE GAME BOARDS   WHAT IS FLOWFREE? A popular game (iOS/Android) on a square board with simple rules. As the website states: ...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/07/using-r-and-integer-programming-to-find.html

This post is targeted at those who are just getting started plotting on maps using R. The relevant libraries are: maps, ggplot2, ggmap, and maptools. Make sure you install them. THE PROBLEM ...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/04/r-beginners-plotting-locations-on-to.html

This post is intended at those who are beginners at R, and is inspired by a small post in Martin's bioblog . First, we plot a "correlation heatmap" using the same logic that Martin uses. In our...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/03/r-defining-your-own-color-schemes-for.html

This is intended for those who are starting out in R and interested in parsing an XML document recursively. It uses DT Lang's XML package. If you want to just read certain types of nodes, then ...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/03/r-simple-recursive-xml-parsing.html

This post is inspired by the Week 7 lectures of the Coursera course "INTRODUCTION TO GENETICS AND EVOLUTION" (I highly recommend this course for anyone interested in genetics, BTW.) Professor Noo...

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R is great for anyone who wants to get started on learning Simulation. (Both Discrete Event or Agent-based, with stochastic elements in the process.) This post is inspired by Matt Asher's "qui...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2013/02/simulating-population-growth-in-cities.html

So what should be in the toolkit of people who call themselves a DATA SCIENTIST? A fundamental skill is the ability to manipulate data. A data scientist should be familiar and comfortable with ...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/12/a-pre-requisite-to-be-data-scientist.html

IT is not as if I don't have enough books (and material on the web) to read. But this list compiled by the O'Reilly team should make any data analyst salivate. http://shop.oreilly.com/categor...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/12/oreillys-data-science-kit-books.html

Ever since I heard about Kaggle.com at this year's Bay Area Data Mining Camp, I've wanted to participate. But I was feeling somewhat intimidated. Jeremy Howard's "Intro to Kaggle" talk at yest...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/11/tips-for-getting-started-on-kaggle.html

Google's FUSION TABLES look impressive, for those who want to try geo-visualizations of their data. You don't need much programming experience to be able to use it. For those who want to try it ...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/10/fusion-tables-by-google.html

I am always looking for suggestions on how to get better at R, esp. for beginners. So when I see someone who's gotten adept at it, I ask them how they got there. This weekend, at the Bay Area A...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/10/get-basics-right-suggestion-for-r.html

I found this great R-Visualization example via an R-Blogger post that xingmowang made. (One more good reason for why it is important to read lots of field-related blogs!) Here's the image: If...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/10/geo-doodlers-paul-butler-and-flowdata.html

To me, this post by Christophe Ladroue personifies what data doodlers do. They take a dataset that is of interest to them (In his case, his triathlon results) and then they manipulate the numbe...

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/10/true-data-doodler-christophe-ladroue-r.html

Check out this talk by John Rauser of AMZN at the 2011 Strata Conf. It is an excellent intro to the field.

http://datadoodlers.blogspot.com/2011/10/what-does-it-mean-to-be-data-scientist.html

DATA MINING is not only statistics, even if statistics is the most recognized academic component of it. It also includes DATA CLEANING, MACHINE LEARNING and DATA VISUALIZATION. > The scarce f...

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