Publications by aschinchon
The World We Live In #4: Marriage Ages
It is time for women to stop being politely angry (Leymah Gbowee, Nobel Prize Peace Winner) Sometimes very simple plots give insight into we live in a world of differences. This plot shows the mean age at marriage for men and women across countries: Being a woman in some countries of this world must be a hard experience: #Singulate mean age at ...
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NASDAQ 100 Couples
Heaven, I’m in heaven, and my heart beats so that I can hardly speak, and I seem to find the happiness I seek, when we’re out together dancing cheek to cheek (Cheek To Cheek, Irving Berlin) There are about 6.500 available packages in CRAN repository. If I were a superhuman, able to learn one package a day, I would spend almost 18 years of my ...
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Discovering Shiny
It is not an experiment if you know it is going to work (Jeff Bezos) From time to time, I discover some of my experiments translated into Shiny Apps, like this one. Some days ago, I discovered one of these translations and I contacted the author, who was a guy from Vietnam called Vu Anh. I asked him to do a Shiny App from this experiment. Vu was ...
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Analysing The Rock ‘n’ Roll Madrid Marathon
Nobody’s going to win all the time. On the highway of life you can’t always be in the fast lane (Haruki Murakami, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running) I started running two years ago and one if my dreams is to run a marathon someday. One month ago I run my first half marathon so this day is become closer butI am in no hurry to do it....
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Odd Connections Inside The NASDAQ-100
Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge (Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise) Analyzing the evolution of NASDAQ-100 stock prices can discover some interesting couples of companies which share a strong common trend despite of belonging to very different sectors. The NASDAQ-100 is m...
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Bertrand or (The Importance of Defining Problems Properly)
We better keep an eye on this one: she is tricky (Michael Banks, talking about Mary Poppins) Professor Bertrand teaches Simulation and someday, ask his students: Given a circumference, what is the probability that a chord chosen at random is longer than a side of the equilateral triangle inscribed in the circle? Since they must reach the answer...
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Simple Data Science To Maximize Return On Lottery Investment
Every finite game has an equilibrium point (John Nash, Non-Cooperative Games, 1950) I read recently this amazing book, where I discovered that we (humans) are not capable of generating random sequences of numbers by ourselves when we play lottery. John Haigh demonstrates this fact analyzing a sample of 282 raffles of 6/49 UK Lotto. Once I read th...
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Shiny Wool Skeins
Chaos is not a pit: chaos is a ladder (Littlefinger in Game of Thrones) Some time ago I wrote this post to show how my colleague Vu Anh translated into Shiny one of my experiments, opening my eyes to an amazing new world. I am very proud to present you the first Shiny experiment entirely written by me. In this case I took inspiration from another...
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The 2D-Harmonograph In Shiny
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe (Carl Sagan) I like Shiny and I can’t stop converting into apps some of my previous experiments: today is the turn of the harmonograph. This is a simple application since you only can press a button to generate a random harmonograph-simulated curve. I love how e...
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Trigonometric Pattern Design
Triangles are my favorite shape, three points where two lines meet (Tessellate, Alt-J) Inspired by recurrence plots and by the Gauss error function, I have done the following plots. The first one represents the recurrence plot of where distance between points is measured by Gauss error function: This one is the same for And this one represents ...
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