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Removing Personal Bias From Flu Severity Estimation (a.k.a. Misery Loves Data)
The family got hit pretty hard with the flu right as the Christmas festivities started and we were all pretty much bed-ridden zombies up until today (2017-01-02). When in the throes of a very bad ILI it's easy to imagine that you're a…
North Carolina's Neighborhood
When I saw the bombastic headline "North Carolina is no longer classified as a democracy" pop up in my RSS feeds today (article link: http://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/op-ed/article122593759.html ) I knew it'd help feed polarization bear…
Pipes (%>%) Everywhere
An R user asked a question regarding whether it's possible to have the RStudio pipe ( %>% ) shortcut ( Cmd-Shift-M ) available in other macOS applications. If you're using Alfred then you can use this workflow for said task (IIRC this…
sergeant : An R Boot Camp for Apache Drill
I recently mentioned that I've been working on a development version of an Apache Drill R package called sergeant . Here's a lifted "TLDR" on…
Package update: longurl 0.3.0 is hitting CRAN mirrors
The longurl package has been updated to version 0.3.0 as a result of a bug report noting that the URL expansion API it was using went pay-for-use. Since this was the second time a short URL expansion service either went belly-up or had…
Minding the zoo[keeper] with R
I've been drafting a new R package — sergeant — to work with Apache Drill and have found it much easier to manage having Drill operating in a single node cluster vs drill-embedded mode (esp when I need to add a couple more nodes for…
The Actual, Über, Ultimate Fake News List
It is surprisingly shorter (or longer if you grok regular expressions) than you think it might be: http[s]://.…
Survey on Data Science In Two Year Colleges
The ASA (American Statistical Association) has been working in collaboration with the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) on developing a data science curriculum for Two Year Colleges. Part of this development is the need to…
Interacting With Amazon Athena from R
This is a short post for those looking to test out Amazon Athena with…
Jumping on the "Banned" Wagon
Where's the ACLU? They'd be right there if this was an alt-right'er asking to ban books with salacious content they deem (rightly or wrongly) "inappropriate" or "harmful" to teens. I hope they step up and fight the fight the good fight…