Publications by R on Harshvardhan
Joint Probability-based Dissimilarity Measure for Discrete Variables
A Simple Method to Calculate Distance between Discrete Variable Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R on Harshvardhan. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find a...
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Biggest Social Advertisers on Facebook
Facebook provides data on all ad funding related to social issues, politics and elections. Here is a simple plot and table to explore the most prominent advertisers. Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R on Harshvardhan. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R new...
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Street Maps (of Some Cities)
Over the last few days, I dabbled with maps in R. Two days ago, I made a map of all the cities I’ve visited. Today, I thought to make street maps of some of them (and other cool cities). Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R on Harshvardhan. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-m...
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Next — Today I learnt About R
What is Next? A short and sweet curated collection of R-related works. Five stories. Four packages. Three jargons. Two tweets. One Meme. You can subscribe by providing your details here. Promise, no spams. Email address First name (Optional) Last name (Optional) By subscribing, you agree with Revue’s Terms of Service and Pri...
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The Ascribed Advantage
How much more do men earn doing the same job as women? Related To leave a comment for the author, please follow the link and comment on their blog: R on Harshvardhan. R-bloggers.com offers daily e-mail updates about R news and tutorials about learning R and many other topics. Click here if you're looking to post or find an R/data-...
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Demonstrating Shiny Apps
Central Limit Theorem App: app.R Slides 2021: here Slides 2020: here Recently, I gave a presentation on R Shiny Apps to an FPM (PhD) class. Although the session was quite brief in itself, we developed a small central limit theorem demonstrator. It’s not feature-rich or anything – just serves the purpose of seeing central limit theorem in acti...
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Exploring My Spotify Listening
I have been using Spotify for two years now. I was always curious to know my listening trends, which is why I started using last.fm and other tools like that. However, they didn’t give me exact information as to what I listened – the insights Spotify gave me were limited to what Spotify thought! I couldn’t know more about which artists I li...
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Sentiment Analysis of Tweets
Two days back I got curious about the Twitter API. I worked with a few APIs (using R) in the past but had never chanced upon using Twitter data. Additionally, Twitter provided a rich source of “what people are talking about”. I searched and found a very easy to use package for R called rTweet. This package’s simplicity and easiness blew my...
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Quotes Generator
The aim was to make a quotes generator website which we take with our breakfast. I used SelectorGadget and rvest to scrap quotes from Wikipedia page. Then I used Unsplash API to get a random nature background image. Finally, I use Shiny to combine all of these and make a webapp out of it. Go, check it out! https://harshvardhan.shinyapps.io/quote...
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Dynamic GP: Application to Malaria Vaccine Coverage Prediction
We applied a dynamic Gaussian process model to predict coverage for novel Malaria vaccines in 78 countries. Using publicly available WHO data on coverage of nine vaccines, we developed localised models for countries grouped using the human development index (HDI). We deployed convolutions of standard GP models with weights determined using singul...
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