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Published

January 13, 2023

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May 11, 2023

If the app fits

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?
– Jack Kerouac

Building and embedding Shiny apps for more interactive fun

Getting into scrapes

The answer, my friend, is blowin’ in the wind. The answer is blowin’ in the wind
– Bob Dylan

Let’s get rvested: using webscraping to pull all the data from all the sites

MapsRus🗺

A map is the greatest of all epic poems. Its lines and colors show the realization of great dreams
– Gilbert H. Grosvenor

Using spatial data to create static and interactive maps.

How to give a chart a makeover 📊💄

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a formula is worth a thousand pictures.
– Edsger Dijkstra

Using data from the Maddison Project to practice the art of finetuning graphs.

April in Paris, Chestnuts in Blossom

Break open a cherry tree and there are no flowers, but the spring breeze brings forth myriad blossoms.
– Ikkyu

This long-awaited post is all about animation.

Shufflebook

Shuffling is the only thing which Nature cannot undo.
– Arthur Eddington

Using a Latent Dirichlet Allocation model to place shuffled book chapters back into their proper book.

Fun with Spotify

I hope the world sees the same person that you always were to me, and may all your favorite bands stay together
– Dawes

Using data from Spotify API to analyze the musical characteristics of some of my favorite musicians.

Madeleine’s First Day

Testing, testing, 1 2 3

Noun. sonder (uncountable) (neologism) The profound feeling of realizing that everyone, including strangers passing in the street, has a life as complex as one’s own, which…

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