Publications by Amber Ferger

DATA 608: Final Project Proposal

18.10.2020

Project Description For my final project, I will examine the effect of COVID-19 on different counties in New York. I plan on creating a visualization that incorporates county-level data on infection rates. The final product will be interactive - the user will be able to select (1) the county and (2) a display of the daily number of cases or the 1...

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WFTDA Covid Tracker

13.12.2020

Dashboard Link: https://qcrd.shinyapps.io/QCRDCovidCases/ Background Women’s Flat Track Derby Association (WFTDA) mandates that its member leagues meet a minimum set of conditions before returning to play. One of these requirements is that the league’s surrounding area have a maximum of 50 positive covid cases per 100,000 individuals over a ...

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DATA 622: Homework 1

19.02.2021

Data Exploration penguins_df <-palmerpenguins::penguins The penguins dataset is composed of 344 datapoints and has one response variable (species) and seven explanatory variables (island, bill_length_mm, bill_depth_mm, flipper_length_mm, body_mass_g, sex, and year). Intuitively, we know that the year variable shouldn’t make a difference in the ...

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DATA 622: Homework 2

19.03.2021

Data Exploration penguins_df <- palmerpenguins::penguins %>% dplyr::select(-year) str(penguins_df) ## tibble [344 x 7] (S3: tbl_df/tbl/data.frame) ## $ species : Factor w/ 3 levels "Adelie","Chinstrap",..: 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ... ## $ island : Factor w/ 3 levels "Biscoe","Dream",..: 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 ... ## $ bill...

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DATA 622 - Final Project

20.05.2021

R Packages The R language is used to facilitate data modeling. The main R packages used for data wrangling, visualization, and graphics are listed below. # Required R packages library(tidyverse) library(kableExtra) library(skimr) library(corrplot) library(e1071) library(dummies) library(caret) library(gbm) library(vip) library(MASS) li...

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