one-off-projects

One-off Projects & Analyses

GIS

• Dorling Cartogram (packed circles)
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• COVID & Elections Has there been a correlation between political party and infection rates?

• Drawing wih R Given an image (jpg), can R return the graphic as circles or lines
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• Gerrymandering While there is no great way to identify in an area is gerrymandered, I looked at concave hulls for congressional districts and the overlapping areas shared with other districts. This analysis provides the data for this Tableau dashboard
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Apps

• Shiny codebase (code app) an overview of the shiny codebase as a network graph. This builds off the package dependency code stored here
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• Find good datasets (code app) helps identify data that would be useful for reproducible examples
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• Posit Table Contest 2022 (code app) entry for 2022
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Other

• COVID confidence intervals While the # of cases is subject to testing or a person being symptomatic enough to seek medical care, the number of deaths due to COVID hashigher accuracy. Making some assumptions about the 2% infection rate and a 3 week lag between a positive test result and death can we make estimates about the true number of cases in the United States? What are the confidence intervals?
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• Counting to 1,000,000 How long would it take to count out-loud from 1 to 1 million? (see html)
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• Glasses This app helps me find frames on zenni.com. The dashboard can be seen here
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• Resume Written with R/LaTeX
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• StackOverflow - related tags
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• Wordle - the best words to start out with if you want to try as many letters out as quick as you can
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• Scrabble Two questions, what two-letter words are easiest to work with? ‘at’ and ‘la’ are a good start. What seven letter word can have 1 letter removed each time to return a single letter? Not something you’d do in scrabble, but the answer to the riddle is planets > planet > plane > lane > lan > la > a)
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• Text - Sentiment Analysis This is a templated script I put together for someone to get started with sentiment analysis. It uses spacyr and reticulate for some of the lemmanization and part-of-speech tagging ( overview, script )
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• Where’s Waldo A proof-of-concept dashboard using waldo::compare() with and the fansi package to mimic the colorful display R shows in the console.
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