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Season 10 is now included in {alone} v0.3

September 19, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Another great season of Alone has finished. I’ve now included all data in the {alone} R package. Version 0.3 is […]

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How to generate a hex sticker with {openai} and {cropcircles}

June 23, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Every R package needs a hex sticker. Here’s how you can generate one in seconds using generative AI.

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R Survivor

survivoR 2.1.0 is now available

June 20, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Good news everyone! survivoR 2.1.0 is now available. The most exciting feature of this release is the new confessional timing app.

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Data Science R

Alone Australia is now included in {alone}

May 30, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Alone Australia is now included in the {alone} R package as well as the cast of season 10 of the US version.

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Alone R package: Datasets from the survival TV series

January 20, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

I have been watching the survival TV series ‘Alone,’ where 10 survivalists are dropped in an extremely remote area and […]

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Select colours from an image in R with {eyedroppeR}

December 6, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

There are fancy ways to extract colours from images but sometimes it’s easier if you could simply click on the […]

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How to crop an image to a circle in R with {cropcircles}

September 11, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

I hadn’t found a super-easy-you-don’t-have-to-think-about-it way to crop an image to a circle in R with a transparent background. There’s […]

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Survivor Confessionals Data: Dataset showcase for {survivoR}

July 30, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Confessionals loosely represent a player’s screen time where they talk strategy and replay events. It is an imperfect measure but […]

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How to use multiple colour scales in ggplot with {ggnewscale}

June 13, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

For week 23 of Tidy Tuesday the chart I wanted to make required two colour scales. For context the dataset […]

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Survivor Advantages: Dataset showcase for {survivoR}

June 10, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Advantages were introduced to Survivor to give players an edge and to shake up the strategy. A successful play can […]

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survivoR v1.0 is now on CRAN

May 14, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

I’m happy to announce that survivoR v1.0 is now on CRAN. The package now contains all the features intended for […]

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Data Science R

survivoR now on CRAN!

April 10, 2021 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

I am pleased to announce survivoR 0.9.2 is now on CRAN. The survivoR data package is a collection of datasets […]

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survivoR | Data from the TV series in R

January 18, 2021 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

596 episodes. 40 seasons. 1 package! I’m a pretty big fan of Survivor and have religiously watched every season since […]

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Evolve new colour palettes in R with evoPalette

June 7, 2020 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

What’s that saying? Choice is the enemy of happiness, or something like that. There are so many colour palettes out […]

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Some basics and intuition behind GAN’s in R and Python

April 15, 2020 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Generative Adversarial Networks are great for generating something from essentially nothing and there are some interesting uses for them. Most […]

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