Publications by Scott Stoltzman
Hospital Infection Scores – R Shiny App
Medicare Data – R Shiny App About two weeks ago I created an extremely rough version of an R Shiny Application surrounding Medicare data. Right after publishing the blog post, I received a lot of input for improvement and help from others. Here’s a look a look at the latest version of the Medicare Shiny App. This utilizes data.gov found here....
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Face Recognition in R
Face Recognition in R OpenCV is an incredibly powerful tool to have in your toolbox. I have had a lot of success using it in Python but very little success in R. I haven’t done too much other than searching Google but it seems as if “imager” and “videoplayR” provide a lot of the functionality but not all of it. I have never actually cal...
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Google Vision API in R – RoogleVision
Using the Google Vision API in R Utilizing RoogleVision After doing my post last month on OpenCV and face detection, I started looking into other algorithms used for pattern detection in images. As it turns out, Google has done a phenomenal job with their Vision API. It’s absolutely incredible the amount of information it can spit back to you b...
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US Immigration Enforcement – Part 1
Trend of US Immigration Enforcement In the coming months I’ll be digging into the immigration enforcement data posted on data.world. I encourage anyone to take this data and either add to the project or to do something on their own. I will be bringing in external data sources to merge as well (which I did for this first plot). If you’re only ...
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Exploratory Data Analysis of Tropical Storms in R
Exploratory Data Analysis of Tropical Storms in R The disastrous impact of recent hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, generated a large influx of data within the online community. I was curious about the history of hurricanes and tropical storms so I found a data set on data.world and started some basic Exploratory data analysis (EDA). EDA is crucial to...
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Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API in R
Microsoft Cognitive Services Vision API in R A little while ago I did a brief tutorial of the Google Vision API using RoogleVision created by Mark Edmonson. I couldn’t find anything similar to that in R for the Microsoft Cognitive Services API so I thought I would give it a shot. I whipped this example together quickly to give it a proof-of-co...
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Exploratory Analysis – When to Choose R, Python, Tableau or a Combination
Not all data analysis tools are created equal. Recently, I started looking into data sets to compete in Go Code Colorado (check it out if you live in CO). The problem with such diversity in data sets is finding a way to quickly visualize the data and do exploratory analysis. While tools like Tableau make data visualization extremely easy, the da...
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100 Days of Code – Completed!
I finished the #100DaysOfCode challenge and it feels great! I will tell you a little a bit about my experience. Top 5 Takeaways: Sitting down and writing code every day is not easyPlanning is critical to your successStaying motivated requires effortBeing excited about your project makes a world of differenceLearning takes time and effort What did...
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Who is The Average Customer?
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the average customer shouldn’t be that important to you. I’m not writing this to repeat the marketing rhetoric you hear about how “millennials” want massive amounts of choice, personalization, customization, etc. I’m here to tell you that people misunderstand the facts about their business ...
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Seinfeld Characters – A Post About Nothing
This post is dedicated to my mother – Seinfeld’s greatest fan. Seinfeld is a classic TV sitcom. It featured four main characters surrounded by relatively normal, everyday, run-of-the-mill scenarios. In the spirit of Seinfeld, this post will also “be about nothing.”I used Python to create a web scraper which gathered scripts from various s...
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