Where I hang to be part of the data science community, especially R. Retired CEO, OppenheimerFunds. Former Chair, Nat. Museum of Mathematics. Also @apsteinmetz
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Some context: We don't invite speakers, they respond to the call for presenters. We usually get 50+ submissions. We have 25 right now. There are usually some women in that group. Right now there are 0. That's why I specifically mentioned the need for women speakers.
So many great #rstats database engines. Data.table, Arrow, duckDB and polars. There are #tidyverse wrappers for all of them, but should you use them? outsiderdata.netlify.app/pos…
Doing last-minute fill in on #rstats maps. #geospatial. Also, #rayshader in an hour. Livestream here. nyhackr.org/
Fly over a pretty mountain drive.
#rayshader adventures, an #rstats tale
Latest at outsiderdata.netlify.app/pos…. Modeling the Ukrainian dam destruction floods with #rstats and #rayshader.
Visualizing the brutal inundation of the Dnipro River after the destruction of the Kakhova dam. Using OpenStreetMaps, OpenTopo, #rstats, and the awesome #rayshader.
Excellent example of a classic data science error. "[T]he reported 'megasociety threshold' for the emergence of moralizing gods is ... solely a consequence of the decision to re-code ... data from unknown values to known absences." Great #rstats code! github.com/babeheim/moralizi…
Is it just me or does this week's #rtstats #tidytuesday show where the people are, not the squirrels?
Are #rayshader animated heatmaps in #rstats just gratuitous chart porn? Find out at outsiderdata.netlify.app/pos…
@nytimes can’t decide if the plural of curriculum the same as the singular or it’s “curriculums.” The correct answer is “curricula.”
How do Africans feel about the "Global North?" Not great. Google translate helps us with the Afrisenti data set. Parts 3 and 4 Drop NOW at outsiderdata.blog! #rstats #TidyTuesday outsiderdata.netlify.app/pos…
@joshua_ulrich @eddelbuettel Does anyone know if @rstats r/finance in Chicago is happening? I see the "Call for Papers" but no dates or registration info.
Can Google Translate help with non-English sentiment analysis? Which works better, valence measurement or machine learning? How is my blog, outsiderdata.net like "Fast Times as Ridgemont High?" #tidytext #tidymodels #rstats #TidyTuesday
ALT sentiment by language from the afrisenti data set
Afrisenti sentiment in tweets mentioning the "Global North" for #TidyTuesday #rstats
ALT Bar plot showing sentiment, positive, negative or neutral in tweets mentioning major areas of the global north. From the Afrisenti data set. Negative exceeds positive for all areas. Russia, alone, is mostly neutral.
Not fancy but informative. Challenges with Afrisenti #TidyTuesday #RStats
ALT heat map of afrisenti data showing where the langauge labeled in the data set is not what Google translate thinks it is. Many tweets are in English, e.g.
Can we use Google translate to analyze sentiment with the #TidyTuesday Afrisenti tweets? No. But I spent $14.75 to find out and now you don't have to. Get translated tweets for #rstats here.
github.com/apsteinmetz/tidyt…
ALT crosstab of native sentiment and google translate sentiment showing poor results for translated tweets