The purpose of this post is threefold: (1) to answer the question, āWhoās the best player thatās moved to the Premier League, at the time of signing?ā;1 (2) to convince Ryan OāHanlon to abandon Google Sheets in favor of R; and (3) to dismay fellow United fans everywhere. This excludes...
[Read More]
Radial Zone Maps
Getting this off before the new year! :flex:
[Read More]
Turn your Reports into Functions!
Your reporting infrastructure is like a puzzle: you have to know how the pieces fit. Your ETL scripts are a piece; your table schema is a piece; your data extraction tools are a piece; and your output is a piece. While brute force and time can wedge anything together (however...
[Read More]
Thoughts on Animation and Movement in Data Visualization
Biologists tell us our eyes evolved to seize upon movement. This evolutionary quirk, once the difference between death by sabertooth and another night in a cave, is now exploited by marketing professionals, entertainers, and most recently, data analysts. But animation in the data visualization spaceāwhile always funāis sometimes gratuitous. Do...
[Read More]
'Speaking as a...': An Inquiry into Twitter Identities and Mansplaining
Speaking as an employed, white, hetero, cis-gendered, married, educated, male, millenial, trash archer, washed point guard, pseudo-anarcho-communist, wannabe lifter, and #rstats enthusiast, Python is trash.1
Joking.Ā ↩
[Read More]
In thy foul throat thou liest--Playing BS without Lying
One of my friends is a terrible liar. The tells are numerousāirregular breathing,
irrepressible grins, and pinkened cheeks. This puts him at a competitive disadvantage while
playing certain table games that require an element of deception.
[Read More]