Upgrading maxcandocia.com
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December 04, 2024
maxcandocia.com is finally upgraded with modern software. The circumstances that prompted the update were less than ideal, but the site is in a much better state now.
Reconstructing a Sampled Surface with Bicubic Splines
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October 14, 2024
Reconstructing a partially-sampled surface can be a bit tricky, as you have limited data and prior assumptions about what a 2d surface looks like. Bicubic splines can be used alongside Markov chain models to optimize a fit.
Modeling with time-dependent error and burgers
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September 21, 2024
Time-dependent error can make estimating effects and other values difficult. One method of overcoming this is by modeling a time-series alongside a regular linear model.
What is a p-value, and when should it be used?
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September 06, 2024
What is a p-value, and when should it be used? This is a basic introduction to their basic usage and some caveats, rather than a deep-dive into how to calculate them.
Effectively Hiding Data in Images
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December 28, 2021
How to effectively hide messages and other data inside images with steganography.
Subreddits That Get You the Most Awards
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March 27, 2021
Which Subreddits are most likely to generate awards for their users?
"Error Bars" on Tiled Heatmaps
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February 23, 2021
Heatmaps are a useful way of plotting 2-dimensional data, such as cross-tabulations. Adding "error bars" can seem non-intuitive, but expressing them in your visualization is possible with a small trick.
How Dream (or Anyone) Could Cheat in Minecraft Speedruns Without Anyone Noticing
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December 19, 2020
Recently, famous YouTuber Dream had his Minecraft speedrun records removed as a result of cheating. If he had cheated differently, would he have been able to evade detection?
Converting fields of lists into wide and tall formats in R
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December 03, 2020
If you have ever downloaded survey data, or any other kind of data, that has a field that is itself comma-separated, you may have found it annoying/difficult to reshape the data into a more useful form.
Pooled Testing for Viruses: How many tests can it save?
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November 26, 2020
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Candy Combinations for Bundling
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November 13, 2020
What candies would work best in a bundle? Using rankings and correlations, popular candies can be grouped together for optimal combinations.
How to Get Survey Responses from Reddit
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November 12, 2020
If you need more data for a survey, you can use Reddit as a source of responses. In this article, we look at a few factors that affect the success of a survey posted to Reddit.
How Would the US Vote for a Candy?
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October 28, 2020
What would it look like if people across the US voted for a candy? Explore different results using different voting methods and different types of representation, such as a national vote versus the Electoral College.
Hashing Data to Memorable Phrases
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October 02, 2020
Do you have trouble memorizing long strings, but want to keep things easy to remember? Look no further than the new keyToEnglish package in R, now available on CRAN.
Calculating Similarity of Running Routes
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September 13, 2020
When working with path-like data, such as a run recorded by GPS, you may want to group near-identical routes together. With a handful of data, I demonstrate how similarities can be calculated to find duplicate runs, as well as make general comparisons between runs.
Dealing with Zeros and Negative Values with a Log Scale
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August 30, 2020
When plotting data, you may want to use a log-scale for most of your data, but zeros, near-zero values, and negative values make this impossible. With piecewise linear and logarithmic functions, however, this effect can still be achieved.
Visualizing Direction in Running Routes
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May 17, 2020
A relatively straightforward method of visualizing the direction of a running path using R and ggmap. This also works for any sort of path data in general.
How Likely Are You to be Banned From Reddit?
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April 07, 2020
How Likely Are You to be Banned From Reddit? I got a bot for that.
Outliers in a Triathlon
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February 26, 2020
How do you identify an "outlier" in a triathlon?
Hiding Data in Images
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February 23, 2020
Images are one of the most common types of data that people view on the internet, but could they be hiding more than the eye can see?