In a follow up to a previous post, I move my Game of Thrones graph into a really cool visualization in Javascript’s D3 library.
Tag Archives: Social Media
What Matters in Speed Dating?
I was interested in finding out what it was about someone during that short interaction that determined whether or not someone viewed them as a match. This is a great opportunity to practice simple logistic regression if you’ve never done it before.
Making Sense of the Game of Thrones Universe Using Community Detection Algorithms
Community detection can help identify a structure in a set of interactions, which has applications to organizational design, but can also be useful in other fields such as digital communications and crime investigation
Create Hans Rosling’s famous animated bubble chart in a single piped R command
A great little learning exercise that illustrates the range and flexibility of the R language
Five common analysis fails
The things they never tell you in statistics classes
Tidy web scraping in R — Tutorial and resources
It’s a lot easier than you think, and there’s some questionable Seventies music too!
Business analytics is ridden with confirmation bias
With the right process, you can keep it in check
Get any US music chart listing from history in your R console
Learn about R’s scraping capabilities and write a simple function to grab a US music chart from any date in the past
The king that graph theory discovered
This is the fourth in a series of articles explaining the principles of networks for those who may use them in a data science context.
Trash or treasure — how to tell if a classification algorithm is any good
In this installment of the series, we review some common measures and considerations when assessing the effectiveness and value of a classification algorithm.