Publications by Peter Prevos
5½ Reasons to Ditch Spreadsheets for Data Science: Code is Poetry
The post 5½ Reasons to Ditch Spreadsheets for Data Science: Code is Poetry appeared first on The Lucid Manager. When I studied civil engineering some decades ago, we solved all our computing problems by writing code. Writing in BASIC or PASCAL, I could quickly perform fundamental engineering analysis, such as reinforced concrete beams, with my h...
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Factor Analysis in R with Psych Package: Measuring Consumer Involvement
The post Factor Analysis in R with Psych Package: Measuring Consumer Involvement appeared first on The Lucid Manager. The first step for anyone who wants to promote or sell something is to understand the psychology of potential customers. Getting into the minds of consumers is often problematic because measuring psychological traits is a complex ...
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Factor Analysis in R: Measuring Consumer Involvement
The first step for anyone who wants to promote or sell something is to understand the psychology of potential customers. Getting into the minds of consumers is often problematic because measuring psychological traits is a complex task. Consumer involvement is a measure of the attitude people have towards a product or service. This article introdu...
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Strategic Data Science: Creating Value With Data Big and Small
The post Strategic Data Science: Creating Value With Data Big and Small appeared first on The Lucid Manager. Data science is without a doubt the most popular business fad of the past decade. The promise of machine learning blinds many managers so they forget about deploying these new approaches strategically. This article provides a framework for...
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Decode Lyrics in Pop Music: Visualise Prose with the Songsim algorithm
The post Decode Lyrics in Pop Music: Visualise Prose with the Songsim algorithm appeared first on The Lucid Manager. Music is an inherently mathematical form of art. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was the first to describe the logic of the scales that form melody and harmony. Numbers can also represent the rhythm of the music. Even the ly...
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Decode Lyrics in Pop Music with the Songsim algorithm
Music is an inherently mathematical form of art. Ancient Greek mathematician Pythagoras was the first to describe the logic of the scales that form melody and harmony. Numbers can also represent the rhythm of the music. Even the lyrics have a mathematical structure. Poets structure syllables and repeat words to create pleasing sounding prose. Thi...
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Analyse Site Structure and Internal Linking Structure with igraph
The post Analyse Site Structure and Internal Linking Structure with igraph appeared first on The Lucid Manager. One of the essential parts of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a logical site structure. Site structure relates to how the pages of a website link to each other. A well-designed structure of internal links improves the user’s exper...
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Analyse Site Structure networks with R and igraph
One of the essential parts of Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is a logical site structure. Site structure relates to how the pages of a website link to each other. A well-designed structure of internal links improves the user's experience. It also helps web crawlers to find their way through the website. This article shows how to use the igraph ...
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The Secret of Landusia: A Text Adventure in the R Language
In the 1980s and early 1990s, I spent a lot of time playing and writing text adventure games on my Atari 8-bit computer. Text adventures, or interactive fiction, are games where the player reads a story on the screen. The player can change the outcomes of the story by issuing text instructions to the computer. These lines are an extract from Colo...
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The Secret of Landusia: A Text Adventure in the R Language
In the 1980s and early 1990s, I spent a lot of time playing and writing text adventure games on my Atari 8-bit computer. Text adventures, or interactive fiction, are games where the player reads a story on the screen. The player can change the outcomes of the story by issuing text instructions to the computer. These lines are an extract from Colo...
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