Publications by evans

Seattle Pets

04.05.2020

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Unicorn First Letter

04.05.2020

A few days ago, Tyler McIntyre tweeted a simple anaysis of unicorn startups, and their names. https://twitter.com/tmcpro/status/1256362051129225217/ Most people have a pretty good intuition of how the most common letters in english, e t i being more common and x, q, z being less common. But what about the first letter of english words? If you re...

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Combining sensor readings and events

22.04.2020

This is in response to my forum post on R Studio Community: https://community.rstudio.com/t/combining-data-frames-based-on-column-between-another-column/62539 It’s important to post solutions found after publicly asking for help. I’m trying to combine two data tables, one table of events that have been grouped into zones, and another of senso...

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When to throw a gloating party

02.08.2020

The year is 2025, and you are working for the tooth fairy. Not for the tooth fairy per se, but at a franchise. The world is doing well, better than ever. But due to some events at the end of 2020, the economy now runs on teeth, collected from human children. The teeth make up the chompchain. A new ledger where Hydroxyapatite matrixes are ‘proof...

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Historic Camera Sales

04.05.2021

I’ve had kites on my brain for a few months now. It feels like kite-areal photography should have taken off when cheap point-and-shoot cameras suddenly started filling drawers with the introduction of smartphones. Photographers say the best camera is the one you have with you, and smartphones quickly left point and shoots behind by always being...

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Chilling Hours for the Pistachio

05.06.2021

A new client asked me to do some math. The question posed to me: “Does this small Arizona town support the growth of pistachios?”. Like most places in Arizona, there is sunshine and water in plenty. What Arizona often lacks is the right amount of cold weather. As days lengthen, pistachios will awake from their winter dormancy by putting out d...

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