Introduction I contend that no college football fanbase has a more unfortunate balance of perceived potential of their team vs the actual performance on the field than the University of Michigan. Though the message board posts on the most prominent Michigan sports blog, MGoBlog, have had a decidedly pessimistic tone for the past couple years, I don’t know a Michigan… Read more →
Using ggmap to visualize fraud trends In Part I of this series I showed how to get the data used in this portion. Let’s start by loading that data into R so we can map it. df <- read.csv(file = choose.files(), header = TRUE) Your data is stored in an R dataframe named df. Next we’ll get David Kahle and… Read more →
Since early 2011 I have been using the website Jinni.com to get recommendations on movies and TV shows. Through rating movies on a 1-10 scale, Jinni built an impressive personal taste profile based on a huge variety of factors. It’s been a valuable tool in helping me discover movies I had never even heard of before. This was all great, except… Read more →
When the calendar rolls around to late April I start to get that good old fashioned knot in my stomach that tells me Mother’s Day is right around the corner. I’ve never been great at coming up with good gift ideas for anyone, and even less so for my mom. My brother and I were talking and we… Read more →
