I came across this article by Nate Silver published back in October last year. In the article, Nate Silver formulates a very important point on the difference between all opinion polls and the polls highlighted in the media: A lot of the value the models provide, as I mentioned, is in looking at all the […]
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Twitter Blue as anti-recommendations
I really like Twitter Blue, Twitter’s opt-in subscription that adds a blue checkmark to people’s account. I would never pay for it myself and that is the reason I like it. In brief, Twitter Blue is similar to a face tattoo. Sure, you are allowed to pay for it and show it to the world, […]
Potpourri: Statistics #92
1647. Data Vis Dispatch: January 3, January 10, January 17, January 24, January 31 1648. The list of 2022 visualization lists 1649. From Documents to Data: A Framework for Total Corpus Quality 1650. Efficient Python for Data Scientists 1651. Deep R Programming 1652. Minimalist Data Wrangling with Python 1653. Everything You Wanted to Know about […]
Assorted links #26
841. 2022 letter 842. 52 things I learned in 2022 843. Cooling a cup of coffee with help of a spoon 844. Can I compute the mass of a coin based on the sound of its fall? 845. Wonders of Street View 846. Eastory 847. When old historic maps overlap with modern political maps 848. […]
SQL and R
Structured Query Language (SQL) is the most widely used database language. You hear people pronounce it as either ‘sequel’ or ‘S-Q-L’. In this post, I will briefly introduce SQL for users of R and provide some guidance on how to wrangle and extract data from SQL databases in R. SQL is not perfect (see this […]