Jack Kennedy 🐀 @_jcken@social.cleverlibre.org

ICYMI: Our end-of-week wrap-up reading list:

‘Escape from Model Land’ author Erica Thompson talks to Real World Data Science about the ‘social element’ of mathematical modelling, how it manifests, and what to do about it.

https://realworlddatascience.net/news-and-views/interviews/posts/01/25/erica-thompson.html

And, on our DataScienceBites blog, Andrew Saydjari gives an overview of ‘The Sequencer’, a proposed method to find trends within high-dimensional datasets.

https://realworlddatascience.net/news-and-views/datasciencebites/posts/2023/01/24/pulling-patterns.html

#datascience

#TidyTuesday | Week 4 | Alone Data Package

People who cited being lonely or family as the reason for leaving the survivalist tv series...16 people through 9 seasons.

code: https://github.com/curatedmess/TidyTuesday/blob/main/2023/01242023/alone.R…

#rstats #r4ds #dataviz

#DataScience permanent #job in UWE Bristol
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/CWX325/lecturer-in-data-science

#academicjobs so it is on an UK academic salary scale, but it is a permanent full-time post.

#TidyTuesday week 4: Alone 🌲

When the mind is stronger than the body. The survivalists who were pulled from the game due to starvation.

I'm looking forward to a more detailed analysis soon 🙂

🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2enfdasf
#rstats #r4ds #dataviz

For this week's #TidyTuesday, I kept it simple and made a lollipop chart with geom_image() - with a little help from @tanya_shapiro's code to get the borders for the images!

Code: https://github.com/nrennie/tidytuesday/tree/main/2023/2023-01-24

#RStats #R4DS #DataViz

For this week of #TidyTuesday, I looked at how long the survivalists last by geographic origin.

Code: https://github.com/mvbloois/tidytuesday

#Rstats #dataviz

Late on #TidyTuesday - Alone TV Series Survivalists

This might be a bold header (pun intended), but I love the story: women are badass competitors with incredible mental fortitude.

Thank you @danoehm for the cool data set!

#rstats code: https://bit.ly/3wrnxQb

Intro to machine learning books make so much sense after you have at least five years of experience in machine learning.

#TidyTuesday | Week 3 | Art History

More ink on the page for Pablo Picasso.

The Breton striped shirt he was famous for wearing may have overly influenced my design choice.

code: https://github.com/curatedmess/TidyTuesday/blob/main/2023/01172023/picasso.R…

#rstats #r4ds #dataviz #ggplot2

Didn't know this specific reasoning for the term 'splines' in regression, but it makes a lot of sense!

#statistics

For this week's #TidyTuesday I explored the "lesser spotted" birds in the Project FeederWatch dataset... and also learnt that that's not what lesser spotted means.

I had wanted to add one of these plots to my portfolio for a while!

Code 👇
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