Publications by R on Publishable Stuff
IBA cocktails in csv and json format: But why?!!
Yesterday I put up a post where I described how I scraped The International Bartenders Association (IBA) cocktails into csv and json format. Timothy Wolodzko had a reasonable question regarding this on Mastodon: Two reasons: Data that’s not sitting in a CSV file make me a bit nervous. With data snugly in a CSV file, there are so many t...
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The International Bartenders Association (IBA) cocktails in csv and json format
I find it fascinating that the International Bartenders Association (IBA) keeps a list of “official” cocktails. Like, it’s not like the World Association of Chefs’ Societies keeps a list of official dishes. But yet the IBA keeps a list of official cocktails and keeps this up to date (!), as well. For example, I have sad news for all you...
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Call ChatGPT (or really any other API) from R
It’s March 2023 and right now ChatGPT, the amazing AI chatbot tool from OpenAI, is all the rage. But when OpenAI released their public web API for ChatGPT on the 1st of March you might have been a bit disappointed. If you’re an R user, that is. Because, when scrolling through the release announcement you find that there is a python packag...
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P-value bowling
I recently went bowling, and you know those weird 3D-animated bowling animations that all bowling alleys seemed to show whenever you made a strike? They are still alive and well! (At least at my local bowling place). And then I thought: Can I get animations like that into my daily data science workflow? With Rstudio’s built-in Viewer tab, I ab...
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Three strategies to tackle Big Data in R and Python
While Big Data™ might not be a buzzword anymore, data that’s uncomfortably large is not going anywhere. In this 30 min. screencast I go through three strategies you can use to tackle big data in R and Python. I also briefly cover three tools: duckDB, Apache Spark, and SnowflakeDB. Here’s the full R code and the full Python code show...
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Putting the top 100 R packages into a GIF
You can say what you want about Twitter, but the way animated GIFs are presented on that platform is pretty nice. It’s not so surprising that they play and loop, as one would expect them to do, but the nice thing is that if you click them, they pause. This tiny change in GIF behavior has resulted in a small cottage industry of GIF games (like ...
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Data from the file drawer: Remembering case-sensitive and case-insensitive words
I’ve dug up an old, never published, dataset that I collected back in 2013. This dataset fairly cleanly shows that it’s harder to remember words correctly if you also have to remember the case of the letters. That is, if the shown word is Banana and the subject recalls it as Banana, then it’s correct, but banana is as wrong as if the subjec...
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