Rectangling (Social) Network Data

Preparing data for link prediction

In this tutorial I will show you how we go from network data to a rectangular format that is suited for machine learning. Many things in the world are graphs (networks). For instance: real-life friendships, business interactions, links between websites and (digital) social networks. I find graphs (the formal name for networks) fascinating, and because I am also interested in machine learning and data engineering, the question naturally becomes: How do I get (social) network data into a rectangular structure for ML? [Read More]

Graphing My Daily Phone Use

How many times do I look at my phone? I set up a small program on my phone to count the screen activations and logged to a file. In this post I show what went wrong and how to plot the results. The data I set up a small program on my phone that counts every day how many times I use my phone (to be specific, it counts the times the screen has been activated). [Read More]

Where to live in the Netherlands based on temperature XKCD style

After seeing a plot of best places to live in Spain and the USA based on the weather, I had to chime in and do the same thing for the Netherlands. The idea is simple, determine where you want to live based on your temperature preferences. First the end result: This post explains how to make the plot, to see where I got the data and what procedures I took look at https://github. [Read More]