Warning: things are about to get petty. With COVID rescheduling sporting events left and right, it’s felt like there’s a new football game on every night of the week this season. For avid football fans, this is fantastic: the games are spread apart for easier fantasy team tracking…
If you have a dataset you'd like to break into chunks and fit a model for each chunk, and you don't want to copy pasta the same code over and over, or use a clunky for loop, read on. You can do it in less than 10 lines of code…
In the haze of sleep deprivation, it can be difficult to remember when the baby last ate or how long ago you changed her. A friend recommended the Feed Baby app to track diaper changes, feeds, sleep, weight, and so on, and we immediately traded in the pen + paper tracker…
In this ravelRy series post, we'll pull a sample of group data and explore which terms in their titles and descriptions are most characteristic of each craft (knitting, crochet, weaving, and spinning).…
In this ravelRy series post, we'll pull a sample of pattern data and explore how pattern tags (like buttonholes, post-stitch or in the round) associate with pattern difficulty ratings.…
Using yarn data pulled via ravelRy, this post explores how different types of fibers appear together in popular yarn blends.…
ravelRy is an R wrapper for the Ravelry.com API. Retrieve knit and crochet patterns, yarn data, author information, and shop locations by search or by a given id.…
Musical genre is far from black and white - there are no hard and fast rules for classifying a given track or artist as “hard rock” vs. “folk rock,” but rather the listener knows it when they hear it. Is it possible to classify songs into broad genres?…
How do you quantify the style progression of a band over time? Over 20 years, several albums, the addition of Travis Barker and the exit of Tom DeLonge, blink-182's style has evolved as well as solidified. "The band was already heading in an artier direction on 2003’s Blink-182, and…
Minnesota is the state with the most Dairy Queen locations per person. What's the farthest you'd ever have to drive to reach a DQ in Minnesota? How far would you have to go to get your birthday ice cream cake or a Reese's Blizzard on a summer day? Inspired by…