David Ranzolin

The purpose of this post is threefold: (1) to answer the question, “Who’s the best player that’s moved to the Premier League, at the time of signing?”;1 (2) to convince Ryan O’Hanlon to abandon Google Sheets in favor of R; and (3) to dismay fellow United fans everywhere. This excludes... [Read More]

Getting this off before the new year! :flex: [Read More]

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]

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 space–while always fun–is sometimes gratuitous. Do... [Read More]

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. ↩ [Read More]

One of my friends is a terrible liar. The tells are numerous–irregular 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]