Tidy Tuesday week 37: Global Human Day
Interesting data this week from the Human Chronome Project which estimates how we spend our time on average across 8 […]
Category: Data Science
In Survivor is entering the merge down on numbers a disadvantage?
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.
Alone Australia is now included in {alone}
Alone Australia is now included in the {alone} R package as well as the cast of season 10 of the US version.
Alone Survival Analysis
Is there a difference in survival rate between men and women on Alone? Survival analysis in R with the Alone R package.
Do confessionals give away the winner of Survivor?
Confessional counts are often great for indicating who the key players are in a season of Survivor. But do confessionals […]
Alone R package: Datasets from the survival TV series
I have been watching the survival TV series ‘Alone,’ where 10 survivalists are dropped in an extremely remote area and […]
Select colours from an image in R with {eyedroppeR}
There are fancy ways to extract colours from images but sometimes it’s easier if you could simply click on the […]
How to crop an image to a circle in R with {cropcircles}
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 […]
Survivor Advantages: Dataset showcase for {survivoR}
Advantages were introduced to Survivor to give players an edge and to shake up the strategy. A successful play can […]
Survivor Do or Die: Should you sit out or fight for immunity?
Simulation analysis in R to determine the odds of success behind the Do or Die twist in Survivor
survivoR v1.0 is now on CRAN
I’m happy to announce that survivoR v1.0 is now on CRAN. The package now contains all the features intended for […]
Racial Bias in Survivor: Are People of Colour Disproportionately Voted Out First?
After episode 9 of season 42 of Survivor, there was a lot of discussion of implicit racial bias in Survivor. […]
survivoR now on CRAN!
I am pleased to announce survivoR 0.9.2 is now on CRAN. The survivoR data package is a collection of datasets […]
Don’t get fooled by the Gambler’s Fallacy
A while ago I simulated Martingale strategies and some variations. This is the strategy where you double your bet on […]
Evolve new colour palettes in R with evoPalette
What’s that saying? Choice is the enemy of happiness, or something like that. There are so many colour palettes out […]
