analysis

We often run R interactively, through Rstudio or in the terminal. But you can also run Rscripts without manual intervention. Using Rscript. But where does the output go? Warning: This post is very linux/unix (macos) centred, I don’t know how this works in Windows. Also I’m using the standard shell in linux ‘bash’ I believe there are some small nuances in the commands in other shells like zsh. Why do I want to know this? [Read More]

Simulation was the key to to achieve world beer dominance. ‘Scientific’ Brewing at scale in the early 1900s Beer bottles cheers This post is an explainer about the small sample experiments performed by William S. Gosset. This post contains some R code that simulates his simulations1 and the resulting determination of the ideal sample size for inference. If you brew your own beer, or if you want to know how many samples you need to say something useful about your data, this post is for you. [Read More]

Can we make the computer say something about characters in a book? In this piece I will search for the names of characters and the words around those names in books. What can we learn about a character from text analysis? Of course it’s also just another excuse for me to read the Hitchhikers series! I will break down the text into chunks of two words, extract the word pairs that matter and visualize the results. [Read More]