Publications by ndphillips

Kuiken Report

21.04.2023

Table of contents Company Level Actuals (Monthly) Changes (Month over Month) OSR Level Table: OSR Pipeline, Goals, and Sales by Month Plot: OSR Sales vs. Goal OSR 2023 Deep Dive Mar 2023 Executive Summary for Kuiken Brothers Updated on 2023-04-21 Company Level The outputs below show company level outputs for Kuiken Brothers across 17 OSRs ...

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I don’t want to learn R! SPSS is fine! (responses)

02.10.2014

I frequently find myself thinking of the best way to convince an SPSS user to make the switch to R. In the process, I came up with the three following most common objections by SPSS users and my responses. Objection #1) I can’t use R because I don’t know how to program Response: Of course you don’t, you haven’t learned yet. That’s lik...

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Reducing code with dplyr

07.10.2014

Here’s a quick example of how the dplyr package can dramatically improve your code for organising and manipulating dataframes [RPubs] Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R – Nathaniel D. Phillips, PhD. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learn...

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My R course…now on YouTube!

08.12.2014

Well, after talking about it for about a year now, I’ve finally started converting my R course to a YouTube friendly format. Since I’m in the middle of my university R course, the videos don’t quite start at the beginning. I’ll add the beginning 3-5 lectures after the semester ends. In the meantime, here’s the permanent link: http://go...

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Icon Array: An R function (and Shiny App!) to create icon arrays

22.12.2014

What if I told you there was a new drug that has been proven to DOUBLE your changes of getting over a cough? Sounds great doesn’t it? Well, before we (ahem) cough up the dough for drug X, let’s take a closer look at the clinical trial data: First, let’s look at the results from the placebo condition: Ok, now let’s look at the results fro...

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Create your own Visual Resume with my new Shiny App

19.01.2015

Shiny Link: https://ndphillips.shinyapps.io/Visual_Resume/ How much do I love R? Enough that I maintain several ‘fun R’ projects. One of my favorites is my Visual Resume generator – which creates an individualised visual resume based on a person’s education and job history (and publications and research interests, etc.). I was inspired b...

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YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R

21.04.2015

If you’ve spent more than 30 minutes with me, you probably know that I’m a bit of an R fanatic. When I meet someone doing analytical work who uses software like Excel or SPSS, I inevitably go into my “R Salesman” mode. Unfortunately, after I spend 10-30 minutes trying to explain how great R is to someone and why they have use it, they in...

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Maximum-Likelihood parameter estimation in R: A brief tutorial

09.09.2015

A brief tutorial on ML estimation in R Recently, a colleague asked me to demonstrate how one can calculate maximum-likelihood (ML) parameter estimates in R. As I had been meaning to do this for my R course anyway, I decided to write up the following brief tutorial. In the tutorial, I go through the three basic steps of ML estimation in R for both...

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piratepal – An R pirate’s source of palettes inspired by everything from the Mona Lisa to the Evil Dead

08.10.2015

When most people think about R, they think of statistics. They don’t think of horror films. I’m here to change that. Let’s back up. While R is certainly one of the top two (I’m looking over my back at you Python) languages for statistical analysis, it’s just as good for creating beautiful and informative plots – but only if you have t...

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www.thepiratesguidetor.com

05.11.2015

I missed out on www.yarrr.com (some domain squatter is holding it for a pirate’s ransom), but I was able to snag www.thepiratesguidetor.com! This is now the official home of YaRrr! The Pirate’s Guide to R For those of you who don’t know, this whole story started last summer. I was taking a late night swim on the Bodensee in Konstanz and saw...

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