http___www.bigleaguekickball.com_category_press_ cod overnight soma Disclaimer I cannot say this enough … I have no idea about nutrition. In fact, if one were to ask me for a dietary plan it would consist of 4 portions of cookies and 20 portions of coffee. The reason I am doing this is to practice and demonstrate how to do some analysis with […]
Inspiration Let me open with this: Faisal Al-Basri brings a lot of laughter into my life. It’s nothing short of a pleasure watching the political, social, and general satire on his instagram account. One particular post recently caught my attention – entitled: “Kuwaiti Women 2nd most obese world wide”. In his own words: Instagram (Rough) […]
I was doing Facebook’s Udacity Explorartory Data Analysis course and one of the tasks is to use GapMinder.org’s data to visualise data. So I picked sugar consumption per capita per day; diabetes is a subject that has always been close and interesting to me. The graph above shows Kuwait’s sugar consumption relative to world averages. […]
This is perhaps my favourite helper function in R. usePackage <- function(p) { if (!is.element(p, installed.packages()[,1])) install.packages(p, dep = TRUE) require(p, character.only = TRUE) }usePackage <- function(p) { if (!is.element(p, installed.packages()[,1])) install.packages(p, dep = TRUE) require(p, character.only = TRUE) } Why? Well … Have you ever tried to run a line of R code that […]
Foreward I started reading Data Smart by John Foreman. The book is a great read because of Foreman’s humorous style of writing. What sets this book apart from the other data analysis books I have come across is that it focuses on the techniques rather than the tools – everything is accomplished through the use […]