Publications by Myles
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I’d like to start with something small, and simple. The thing about analyzing the data of your own life is that you are the only one doing the research, so you also have to collect all of the data yourself. This takes effort; and, if you’d like to build a large enough data set to do some really interesting (and valid) analysis, ti...
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Sleep – Part I
Yes, that first night was incredibly rough, thanks for asking. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: everyday analytics. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find ...
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11 Million Yellow Slips – City of Toronto Parking Tickets, 2008-2011
IntroductionI don’t know about you, but I really hate getting parking tickets. Sometimes I feel like it’s all just a giant cash grab. Really? I can’t park there between the hours of 11 and 3, but every other time is okay? Well, why the hell not?But ah, such is life. Rules must be in place to keep civil order, keep the engines of city l...
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Sleep – Part II
Still gettin’ it? I’m off to Montreal for Jazzfest. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: everyday analytics. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/dat...
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50 Shades of Grey Wordcloud
Sometimes you just want to see what all the fuss is about. File this under the ‘because I can’ category: I proudly (?) present – a wordcloud produced from the text of E. L. James’ “50 Shades of Grey”.For a book which is getting all this press about being full of explicit sexuality, the data are not what you expect. Obvious...
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Zzzzzz….. – Quantified Self Toronto #14
Sleep is another one of those things like diet, where I feel if you asked anyone if they wanted to improve that area of their life most would say yes.I remember hearing a quote that sleep is like sex; no one is quite sure how much everyone else is getting, but they are pretty sure it is more than them. Or wait, I think that was salary...
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omg lol brb txt l8r – Text Message Analysis, 2011-2012
IntroductionI will confess, I don’t really like texting. I communicate through text messages, because it does afford many conveniences, and occupies a sort of middle ground between actual conversation and email, but that doesn’t mean that I like it. Even though I would say I text a fair bit, more than some other Luddites I know, I’m not a s...
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What’s in My Pocket? Read it now! (or Read It Later)
IntroductionYou know what’s awesome? Pocket.I mean, sure, it’s not the first. I think Instapaper existed a little before (perhaps). And there are alternatives, like Google Reader. But Pocket is still my favorite. It’s pretty awesome at what it does.Pocket (or Read It Later, as it used to be known) has fundamentally changed the way I read.Be...
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The Hour of Hell of Every Morning – Commute Analysis, April to October 2012
IntroductionSo a little while ago I quit my job.Well, actually, that sounds really negative. I’m told that when you are discussing large changes in your life, like finding a new career, relationship, or brand of diet soda, it’s important to frame things positively.So let me rephrase that – I’ve left job I previously held to pursue other d...
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Gmail went down. Nobody panic.
Source: 1500 random tweets from today with the terms ‘gmail down’ (pulled from API). Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: everyday analytics. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to...
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