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Stats and things: R Package to Download Fitbit Data
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Thursday, January 22, 2015. R Package to Download Fitbit Data. Edit 4/8/2015: Updated to use newer functions…. Edit 3/26/2015: fitbitScraper 0.1.2 is now on CRAN. With new heart rate data capabilities. Edit 2/2/2015: fitbitScraper 0.1.1 is now on CRAN. For Christmas and have been unexpectedly into this thing. I absolutely did not expect to be motivated by monitoring my fitness activity. Its been fun. Df - get daily data(cooki...
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Stats and things: geocodeHERE 0.1 is on CRAN
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Thursday, November 6, 2014. GeocodeHERE 0.1 is on CRAN. In my previous blog post. I detailed how I created my first R package called geocodeHERE. This package is a convenient wrapper for Nokias HERE geocoding API. Any how, I went through the process to submit the package to CRAN. Heres how it works, starting with downloading and installing the package (youll need the httr package. GeocodeHERE simple(navy pier chicago IL).
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Stats and things: Creating Styled Google Maps in ggmap
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Creating Styled Google Maps in ggmap. In R, my go to package for creating maps is ggmap. Using this, one can create maps using a variety of services, including Google maps. I just recently discovered the ability to create a styled version of a Google map. Lets go through this process to create a black and white map of Chicago, with the parks shown in red. First, go to the Styled Maps Wizard. I wrote t...
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Stats and things: fitbitScraper 0.1.2 Now on CRAN
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Thursday, March 26, 2015. FitbitScraper 0.1.2 Now on CRAN. Ive updated the fitbitScraper. To 012 with the help of a friend that gave me access to his fitbit account so I could work out the heart rate API endpoints (thanks Shane! This is a package that enables you to read daily or intraday data from Fitbit. Into R for graphing and analysis. And finally, the daily heart rate data comes with three data points for each day. Z...
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Stats and things: Visualizing Bus Stops with rCharts
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Wednesday, June 11, 2014. Visualizing Bus Stops with rCharts. I wanted to create a quick visualization of Bloomington IL bus stops. This data is in pdf file format spread across multiple files. The first step, before any mapping can occur, is downloading those files, parsing them to get the bus stop locations and times. Now that we have a directory filled with pdf files, what do we do with it? That can be used to read the dat...
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Stats and things: Using rvest to Scrape an HTML Table
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Blog about statistics, visualizations, R, and whatever else that comes to mind. Thursday, January 8, 2015. Using rvest to Scrape an HTML Table. I recently had the need to scrape a table from wikipedia. Normally, Id probably cut and paste it into a spreadsheet, but I figured Id give Hadleys rvest package. The first thing I needed to do was browse to the desired page. First step is to install rvest from CRAN. Rank in nthe Fifty nStates, n2014 # 1! 000006 # Rank in all nstates n& terri- ntories, n2010 State...
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NFL Week Eight Wrap-up | HappyBreathNet's Free NFL Picks Blog
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HappyBreathNet's Free NFL Picks Blog. Free NFL Picks – Statistical Model Computes Cumulative Distribution Function and Confidence for Each Game. Laquo; New NFL Free Picks Format. 62% ATS – Below 50% OU – Rethinking our position on OU. NFL Week Eight Wrap-up. Saw us go 7/9 on bet units, returning to the right side of the Expectation Value Probability Distribution. For the season. We are now running 60% (53/89) for the season on bet units. I know of at least two websites ( mine. Big bettors are probably no...
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New NFL Free Picks Format | HappyBreathNet's Free NFL Picks Blog
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HappyBreathNet's Free NFL Picks Blog. Free NFL Picks – Statistical Model Computes Cumulative Distribution Function and Confidence for Each Game. Laquo; Singing the Praises of the Over/Under Bet. NFL Week Eight Wrap-up. New NFL Free Picks Format. We reformatted our week seven free NFL picks. Page We’re thinking of doing our entire NFL Oddsmakers Free Picks. Site with the new format. Currently most of the pages (look at past week’s picks. Are still do the old format. Which do you prefer? From your own site.
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