Social Network Analysis – Survivor: David vs. Goliath Ep5
In episode 5 we saw some big moves. Dan struck gold again finding a clue to another hidden immunity idol […]
Social Network Analysis – Survivor: David vs. Goliath Ep4
Season 37 of Survivor is shaping up to be a tough season with another shock departure. Bi was forced to […]
Social Network Analysis – Survivor: David vs. Goliath Ep3
Being a social game Survivor lends itself well to social network analytics. Over the season I'll be tracking the alliances […]
Bayesian Network Example with the bnlearn Package
Bayesian Networks are probabilistic graphical models and they have some neat features which make them very useful for many problems. […]
Simple Parallel Processing in R
I recently purchased a new laptop with an Intel i7-8750 6 core CPU with multi-threading meaning I have 12 logical […]
Cribbage: Optimal Hand (part 1)
Cribbage is one of my favourite card games and have been playing it ever since I could count. It is […]
Probability of Selecting Matched Pairs and the Hypergeometric Distribution
The problem Consider a case where we have a bag of marbles of size . The bag consists of black […]
PCA vs Autoencoders for Dimensionality Reduction
There are a few ways to reduce the dimensions of large data sets to ensure computational efficiency such as backwards […]
Confidentialise Your Data with the randomNames Package
Sensitive data has it’s restrictions for good reason. Personal data such as names and other identifiable information should be protected. […]
Improve Your Training Set with Unsupervised Learning
On my previous post Advanced Survey Design and Application to Big Data I mentioned unsupervised learning can be used to […]
