Publications by Mark Edney
The beauty of List comprehensions in Python
I have spent awhile learning Python, and I was a little perplexed when it came to list comprehensions. Why would you use them? Isn’t there just an easier why?As my proficiency increase, I have found them to be an incredibly useful tool. They save you lines of code, are easy to understand, and are usually better for performance. A good list comp...
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Quarto: The successor to R Markdown
IntroductionRMarkdown has been a staple for any Data Scientist that programs in R. Quarto builds on that, with multiple language support and additional features. Because of its language independent design, Quarto requires an independent installation. (“Quarto,” n.d.)I have spent the past week moving my blog from blogdown to quarto. There have...
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Text Prediction Shiny App pt 1
This Shiny App was first written in May of 2021 Description The goal of this project was to create an N-gram based model to predict the word to follow the user’s input. This project was to complete the Capstone project for the Johns Hopkins University Data science program on Coursera. The data for this project was provided by Swiftkey. This pr...
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Quarto: The successor to R Markdown
Introduction RMarkdown has been a staple for any Data Scientist that programs in R. Quarto builds on that, with multiple language support and additional features. Because of its language independent design, Quarto requires an independent installation. (“Quarto,” n.d.) I have spent the past week moving my blog from blogdown to quarto. There ha...
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Creating Posts for Quarto Blog
Introduction I have officially switched my blog from blogdown to quarto due to the new features that quarto adds. The move has not been painless, but most of the most important features remain the same. The feature this is currently missing in quarto that I cannot live without, is the 1 click creation of a new blog post. There are a few different...
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R-Bloggers site
I would like to take the time to mention the r-bloggers site. It is a vast collection of Blogs on everything that has to do will the R language. I would very much like to contribute to their work with this blog. Just to keep it interesting, I would like to recommend this specific post by The Jumping Rivers Blog about upcoming R conferences. I’v...
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Benchmarking Data Tables
When I started learning R, I heard vague tales of the use of Data Tables. Really just whisperers, of something to consider in the future after I’ve become more proficient. Well now is the time to learn what if anything I’ve been missing out on. Introduction Data Tables are a potential replacement for the common dataframe. It seeks to perform...
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Dashboards in R with Shiny Dashboard
In a previous post, I explore the Flex dashboard library for the creation of a clean and interactive dashboard. That post can be found here. Unknown to me at the time, but I sort of skipped over the more natural progression of creating a dashboard with R Shiny. This is my attempt to recreate that dashboard and compare the ease of creation and fun...
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Level up your programming skills
How do you become a better programmer? Well, there is strong scientific evidence for the support of the principle of deliberate practice. Deliberate practice is a method of skill development first written by Anders Ericsson in the book “Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise”. I would also recommend reading “Talent Is Overrated: Wh...
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Text Prediction Shiny App pt 1
This Shiny App was first written in May of 2021 Description The goal of this project was to create an N-gram based model to predict the word to follow the user’s input. This project was to complete the Capstone project for the Johns Hopkins University Data science program on Coursera. The data for this project was provided by Swiftkey. This pr...
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