Publications by Francis Smart
The Counter Intelligence Of The US’s Counter Intelligence Apparatus
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Why Blog?
The Blog Review ProcessA series of events in my life have lead me to reconsider the value of blogging.The Back StoryShort story: I got fired.Long story: Recently I was hired to write occasional blog posts for Quandl. They probably figured that due to my large readership and specialization in econometrics that I could actually write something info...
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Quandl Package – 5,000,000 free datasets at the tip of your fingers!
# Yes, you read that correctly and no Quandl (http://www.quandl.com/) did not pay me anything.# Quandl is a new database management tool which seeks to become the place to find datasets. They boast of having over 5×10^6 data sets available though after examining them, I have decided that they are not entirely what everybody might ...
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Spatial Critter Swarming Simulation
# I am interested in how small bits of individualized instructions can create collective action.# In this simulation I will give a single instruction to each individual in the swarm.# Choose another individual who is not too close, then accelerate towards that individual.# I also control momentum causing the previous movement and dire...
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SIR Model – The Flue Season – Dynamic Programming
# The SIR Model (susceptible, infected, and recovered) model is a common and useful tool in epidemiological modelling.# In this post and in future posts I hope to explore how this basic model can be enriched by including different population groups or disease vectors.# Simulation Population Parameters: # Proportion Susceptible Sp = .9 # Pr...
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Strategic Zombie Simulation – Animation
# Escape Zombie Land! # This is a simulation an escape from a hot zombie zone. It freezes and gives an error if you get get killed so you had best not. You attempt to navigate the zone by constructing waypoints. # This is not a very clean set up and I would like to clean it up. However, I have spent way more time on it than I intended. So I...
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Non-Verbal Reasoning Test – Concerto
I have just released my first complete test of non-verbal problem solving skills. It is run on Concerto (an R-based application development platform targeted at primarily test developers) Try it out by following the link below.Non-Verbal Reasoning TestI will release the code for the test in a series of posts with explanation of ho...
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My Prime Sieve – Homage to Yitan Zhang
# As a homage to Yitang Zhang who has proven a mind-bending property of Prime Pairs, I have written a prime Sieve to detect all of the prime numbers from 1 to N. # There might very well be a function in the base package that already does this. No doubt there are a dozen math packages out there which does this. However, it is the first time I h...
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Shiny + Concerto = YES !!!
So I have finally gotten beta access to the two most powerful R controlled web application makers in existence and produced very exciting experimental productsA few posts ago I posted a Visual Reasoning Test that I had made by hand and powered with Concerto. I posted a bit of the Concerto R code in order for people to get a feel fo...
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Item Analysis App – Shiny Code
Here is the code for my first Shiny App! It is the one that I posted previously with a few slight revisions. You can see it at: A Shiny R App In order to make any sense of this I suggest you working through the tutorial (http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/) it would be also useful to apply for beta access to the rstudio server which provides free hos...
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