Publications by Myles
What The Smeg? Some Text Analysis of the Red Dwarf Scripts
IntroductionJust as Pocket fundamentally changed my reading behaviour, I am finding that now having Netflix (and even before that, other downloadable or streaming digital content) is really changing my behaviour as far as television is concerned.Where watching TV used to be an affair of browsing through 500 channels and complaining there was noth...
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xkcd: Visualized
IntroductionIt’s been said that the ideal job is one you love enough to do for free but are good enough at that people will pay you for it. That if you do what you love no matter what others may say, and if you work at it hard enough, and long enough, eventually people will recognize it and you’ll be a success.Such is the case with Randall M...
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The heat is on…. or is it? Trend Analysis of Toronto Climate Data
The following is a guest post from Joel Harrrison, PhD, consulting Aquatic Scientist.For a luddite like me, this is a big step – posting something on the inter-web. I’m not on Facebook. I don’t know what Twitter is. Hell, I don’t even own a smartphone. But, I’ve been a devoted follower of Myles’ blog for some time, and he was ...
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Everything in Its Right Place: Visualization and Content Analysis of Radiohead Lyrics
IntroductionI am not a huge Radiohead fan.To be honest, the Radiohead I know and love and remember is that which was a rock band without a lot of ‘experimental’ tracks – a band you discovered on Big Shiny Tunes 2, or because your friends told you about it, or because it was playing in the background of a bar you were at sometime in the 90�...
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What’s in my Pocket? (Part II) – Analysis of Pocket App Article Tagging
IntroductionYou know what’s still awesome? Pocket.As I noted in an earlier post (oh god, was that really more than a year ago?!) I started using the Pocket application, previously known as Read It Later, in July of 2011 and it has changed my reading behavior ever since.Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about quantified self and how I’m not ...
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The Mathematics of Wind Chill
IntroductionHoly crap, it was cold out.If you haven’t been reading the news, don’t live in the American Midwest or Canada, or do and didn’t go outside the last couple weeks (for which I don’t blame you) there was some mighty cold weather lately due to something called a polar vortex.Meteorologists stated that a lot of people (those in you...
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Creepypasta – Votes vs. Rating (& learning ggplot2)
Excel: R, base package:R, ggplot:Am I overfitting? Probably.Code: More fun stuff to come….ReferencesSource data at Creepypasta.com:http://www.creepypasta.com/creepypasta-ratings-index/Code on gist:http://gist.github.com/mylesmharrison/8886272Creepypasta – in list of internet phenomena (Wikipedia):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cre...
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Toronto Data Science Group – A Survey of Data Visualization Techniques and Practice
Recently I spoke at the Toronto Data Science group. The folks at Mozilla were kind enough to record it and put it on Air, so here it is for your viewing pleasure (and critique):Overall it was quite well received. Aside from the usual omg does my voice really sound like that?? which is to be expected, a couple of thoughts on the busine...
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Submission Steps: 1 . Prepare Assignment 2 report using this R Markdown template. Once you finalise your report, run all R chunks and Preview your notebook in HTML (by clicking Preview). Make sure your code and outputs are visible. 2 . Upload the report as a PDF file via the File Upload tab under the Assignment 2 page in CANVAS (see instructions ...
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Assignment 3 Myles Hart
Are Boys Really Heavier? A COVID lockdown story Myles Hart - s3869375 Last updated: 25 October, 2020 RPubs link information https://rpubs.com/Myles/assignment3_boysheavier Introduction After so long in lockdown I have noticed that I appear to be putting on a little weight. I want to know where I fit into the scale of average weight for a mal...
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