Magic reprex
11 Jan 2017
R rbloggers
Making reproducible examples can be hard.
Nicholas Tierney Original witty remark
A Simple Guide to S3 Methods
06 Nov 2016
R Missing Data rbloggers
A few months ago I wrote about my first solo author submission to the R Journal entitled, “A Simple Guide to S3 Methods”. Unfortunately the article didn’t make it to publication on the R Journal, but admittedly that might have been a bit of a long shot.
Simple Guide to S3 Methods
26 Aug 2016
R rbloggers
So I’ve just submitted my first article to the R Journal!
Science Meets Parliament
22 Aug 2016
Blag
This blog post is a repost from the Statistical Society of Australia Newsletter.
Australian rOpenSci Unconference
09 Mar 2016
Blag
The rOpenSci Unconferene is coming to Australia and we are excited!!
WOMBAT 2016 Wrap Up
06 Mar 2016
Blag rbloggers
A few weeks ago I spoke at the Workshop Organized by Monash Business Analytics Team (WOMBAT), held in the Melbourne Zoo (!) on Thursday and Friday the 18th and 19th February.
ggplot your missing data
01 Dec 2015
R Missing Data rbloggers
Visualising missing data is important when analysing a dataset. I wanted to make a plot of the presence/absence in a dataset. One package, Amelia provides a function to do this, but I don’t like the way it looks. So I made a ggplot version of what it did.
ggplot your missing data
12 Nov 2015
R Missing Data rbloggers
Visualising missing data is important when analysing a dataset. I wanted to make a plot of the presence/absence in a dataset. One package, Amelia provides a function to do this, but I don’t like the way it looks. So I made a ggplot version of what it did.
How I built my website
11 Nov 2015
Jekyll
I’ve recently changed my website from Wordpress to Jekyll. In this post I try and succinctly describe how it happened.
Using `table` the dplyr way
03 Nov 2015
R
In this post I describe how to use tally, the dplyr equivalent of table.
R Package `neato`
09 Mar 2015
R
My workflow in R now is to make a function after I copy and paste some code more than once. Sometimes I find myself using these functions more than once, across different projects.
Working Smoothly(er) from RMarkdown to Word.
09 Feb 2015
rmarkdown R
I’m a pretty huge fan of RMarkdown, as it is a great way for me to write my code and my text together. It seems really a rather a natural thing to do. You write about your analyses, and the code is there. You update some function or some data, and your figures and tables update with it.
Fix for `gbm.plot`
22 Apr 2014
R
I’m currently in the process of writing a report using boosted regression trees. I’m currently using guidelines provided by Elith et al here, and here
A Grammar of Models?
10 Nov 2013
R Statistics
I came across this interview with Hadley Wickham, the creator of one of the most widely used R packages, ggplot 2. I thought that this quote was interesting:
Statistics for Journalists
01 Nov 2013
Statistics Teaching
In November 2013 I had the opportunity to work with the Australian Science Media Centre (AusSMC) and produce a talk explaining numbers and statistics. The deal was that it was 11 concepts on numbers and stats in 20 minutes. The concepts being:
Statistics Can Do Anything?
01 Sep 2013
Statistics Blag
Sometimes people are fond of saying:
"Well, you know, the thing with statistics is that you can get the statistics to say whatever you want."
I think that this is the equivalent of saying:
"...What I am saying is true because of my argument."
You can say that anything is true, but what really matters is the strength of your argument.
Monte Carlo Approximiation
26 Jun 2013
Statistics
There are a lot of explanations of Monte Carlo approximation out there.
Humanity
12 Jun 2013
Blag
A friend of mine posted an interesting article on facebook today - “Honing the mind and nurturing the soul: why the humanities are underrated”. The piece is written by Professor Steven Schwartz, a distinguished academic currently residing at Oxford University after holding Vice Chancellor positions in Australia and the UK.
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