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Tidy Tuesday week 38: CRAN packages

September 24, 2023No Comments

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

September 19, 2023No Comments

Tidy Tuesday week 37: Global Human Day

September 18, 2023No Comments

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

June 23, 2023No Comments
Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 38: CRAN packages

September 24, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

This week the data was about R packages on CRAN showing the package description, dependencies, licenses, etc. There were 4 […]

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R

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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Data Science Tidy Tuesday

Tidy Tuesday week 37: Global Human Day

September 18, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Interesting data this week from the Human Chronome Project which estimates how we spend our time on average across 8 […]

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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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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 Survivor

In Survivor is entering the merge down on numbers a disadvantage?

June 20, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

It’s usually seen as beneficial to enter the merge with the numbers. Here’s an analysis in R with the survivoR package to see if this is true.

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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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Data Science

Alone Survival Analysis

May 8, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Is there a difference in survival rate between men and women on Alone? Survival analysis in R with the Alone R package.

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Data Science Survivor

Do confessionals give away the winner of Survivor?

April 6, 2023 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Confessional counts are often great for indicating who the key players are in a season of Survivor. But do confessionals […]

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Data Science R

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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Data Science R

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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Data Science R

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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R Survivor

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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Dot chart with two different gradients R

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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