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Filling in empty values in a time series in R - Third Landing
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Filling in empty values in a time series in R. Filling in empty values in a time series in R. January 4, 2015. Previous post, I had shown how to use Python to fill in zeroes in a time series. I thought I’d use this post to show how to do the same in R. By way of review, I track my bike rides, runs and walks in an Android app called KeepTrack. Let’s say I’ve read in the existing dates into a dataframe called exer.df (recall this has date “holes” in it as the first listing of da...Now we can use the R merg...
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My Git workflow for Webfaction, Bitbucket and local development in Django. August 30, 2016. I’ve posted this mostly for a reminder for myself, but others may find it helpful. I currently develop any websites ideas I have in Django and host them on Webfaction (which I really like). To my everlasting shame as a …. Read more ›. July 30, 2016. Read more ›. Collecting available employee counts for public companies. January 27, 2015. Read more ›. Baseball Road Trip Planner. Things Everyone Else Knew.
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Jittering a map location for privacy. September 3, 2016. As I mentioning in a previous post , I had a project that required mapping locations, but I wanted to slightly perturb the locations on the map so as to not reveal any of the actual locations on the map, …. Read more ›. How many degrees are in a Chicago city block. June 15, 2016. Read more ›. A golf road trip visiting a top course in each state. April 12, 2016. Read more ›. Building the National Park road trip route. April 6, 2016. Read more ›.
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Collecting available employee counts for public companies - Third Landing
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Collecting available employee counts for public companies. Collecting available employee counts for public companies. January 27, 2015. I worked on a project where I wanted to find employee counts for companies to use in a Bayesian prior I was using in a model. There are likely numerous places you can buy this sort of data, but I hoped to use what was publicly available. Eventually, I was able to obtain a good amount of this data through the Yahoo Finance API. Looking at a page such as. Import urllib imp...
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Archive for R programming. Using R and ggplot to compare months across different years. January 28, 2016. Previously, I had used R to plot daily totals for a years worth of my walking and cycling activity. As I accumulated a second year of data, I wanted to see a month-to-month comparison of the 2 years. Once the …. Read more ›. Posted in R programming. Filling in empty values in a time series in R. January 4, 2015. Read more ›. Posted in R programming. Chicago’s tallest buildings by ward. May 3, 2013.
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The Traveling Divvyer - Third Landing
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April 22, 2015. Divvy is the bike sharing program in Chicago. Since its implementation a couple of years ago, I had wondered how someone would go about visiting all stations as quickly as possible, and also wondering whether anyone would actually deign to try. Is a riff on classic traveling salesman problem, using Divvy data. The base algorithm and data scraping were coded in Python. The website is written in Django, and uses D3 and Leaflet for mapping functionality. Baseball Road Trip Planner.
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2015 MLB road trips now available at basesroaded.com - Third Landing
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2015 MLB road trips now available at basesroaded.com. 2015 MLB road trips now available at basesroaded.com. January 25, 2015. Looking to take a baseball road trip to a number of ballparks this year but don’t know how to start planning? I have updated basesroaded.com. For the 2015 season. You can search for good trips for up to 18 ballparks at a time, choosing by dates to travel or cities you want to visit or some combination of the two. Happy road tripping… Get planning now. Baseball Road Trip Planner.
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A JavaScript gotcha - Defining a function in a for loop - Third Landing
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A JavaScript gotcha – Defining a function in a for loop. A JavaScript gotcha – Defining a function in a for loop. April 4, 2015. No JavaScript programmer am I….but I have picked up bits and pieces as I’ve needed to add functionality to websites I occasionally build. I was recently adding a bit of mapping functionality to my baseball road trip planner. My goal was to show a given road trip on a map, with numbered Leaflet markers indicating the order in which the cities are visited. (see here. I would just...
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Tutoring - Third Landing
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I am available for tutoring in various topics in Data Science. My intended audience for this is primarily students taking MOOC courses in Data Science, Data Science Certification courses or Masters programs in Data Science. My experience in data, statistics and computing will help from both a big picture standpoint as well as on a detailed level. I prefer to meet directly in the city of Chicago, but can be made available via Skype as needed. If you are interested. Baseball Road Trip Planner.
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I am available for all phases of a data driven project. If you would like to discuss my involvement in any of these phases. In addition to your own business data, there is extensive data publicly available. I can use my experience and knowledge to help you obtain this data. This can be done through available APIs and data scraping. I have extensive experience working in commercial settings with large databases, including Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server and DB2. I can assist you in the following ways. Any data ...