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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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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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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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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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Infographic of the history of advantages in Survivor Data Science R Survivor

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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Data Science Survivor

Survivor Do or Die: Should you sit out or fight for immunity?

May 15, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

Simulation analysis in R to determine the odds of success behind the Do or Die twist in Survivor

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Data Science R Survivor

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 Survivor

Racial Bias in Survivor: Are People of Colour Disproportionately Voted Out First?

May 4, 2022 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

After episode 9 of season 42 of Survivor, there was a lot of discussion of implicit racial bias in Survivor. […]

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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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Data Science

Don’t get fooled by the Gambler’s Fallacy

August 17, 2020 Daniel Oehm 0 Comments

A while ago I simulated Martingale strategies and some variations. This is the strategy where you double your bet on […]

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Data Science R

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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