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Advent of Code 2024, Day 1

The following is the solution for AoC 2024 Day 1.

R Environments

The following blog post hopes to demystify the concept of environments in R.

Quarto Dashboard

The following blog post is a demonstration of the new dashboard feature released in quarto 1.4. The following dashboard was built using quarto, with simple interactivity…

Scikit-Learn Practice From the Perspective of an R User

One of the premiere machine learning modules in python is scikit-learn and it’s going to be the first place I’m going to start in my journey of learning the python language.…

Pandas Practice From the Perspective of an R User (Part 1)

One of the most fundamental skillset in data science is the ability to pre process data and get it into a format that is suitable for analysis. In R, the tidyverse package…

Co-author Network Analysis with networkD3

This is post was largely inspired by the advent of code 2023 day 25 puzzle which largely involved network analysis. I thought it would be a fun visualization to visualize…

Advent of Code 2023, Day 25

This was a fun puzzle! The moment I read the puzzle prompt I instantly thought of network analysis. I used the networkD3 package to visualize the network and the igraph packa…

Advent of Code 2023, Day 15

Another fairly straight forwad puzzle. We are given an algorithm that we need to follow. The algorithm is as follows:

Advent of Code 2023, Day 12

This is a fairly straightforward puzzle. The trickiest part of this puzzle is writing out the regex to match the proper conditions, based on the arragnements.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 9

Part 1 of this puzzle is fairly straight forward. The goal of Part 1 is to identify the next number in the ‘history’. In order to identify the next value in the history, we…

Advent of Code 2023, Day 8

This was definitely a fun puzzle. As always, lets start off with reading in the puzzle input, and tidy it up into something we can work with.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 7

Time for some Camel Cards (Poker)! This was a fun puzzle, that really made me think outside of the box.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 6

What is going on with these puzzles?! Difficulty dropped quite a bit again for the even day puzzles.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 5

Let’s just say this puzzle made my processor go BRRRRRRRRRRRRR.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 4

The complexity of this puzzle dropped a bit for Day 4. Definitely wasn’t as difficulty as Day 3.

Advent of Code 2023, Day 3

Wow what a doozie, the increase in difficulty was significant compared to Day 2. This was a fun one though, I think I could have done it in a more efficient way, but I was…

Advent of Code 2023, Day 2

The solution for Part 1 was actually quite simple. The major complexity of this puzzle is due to the data not being in a ‘tidy’ format. The majority of the code below is…

Advent of Code 2023, Day 1

It’s the season for Advent of Code 2023. Advent of code is an ‘advent calendar’ of small programming puzzles that begins on 12/1 of every year and last until Christmas…

Haunted Los Angeles - Interactive Mapping using Leaflet

The following blog post is a very simple visualization using the data from tidytuesday 2023, week 41. This visualization uses the leaflet library to produce a very simple…

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) of Taylor Swift Discography

This is a quick PCA of Taylor Swift’s discography using the dataset from the tidytuesday 2023, week 42. PCA is a technique used to reduce high dimensional data into…

Secret Santa Randomizer using ShinyLive 🎅🎄🎁

It’s the time of year for giving 🎅🎄🎁

Implementation of ShinyLive in Quarto

The following blogpost is an example implementation of ShinyLive.

Implementation of WebR in Quarto

WebR is a web implementation of the R statistical software in a web browser built using the Node.js and WebAssembly framework. The official documentation will have a better…

Meta-programming with R and rlang

rlang is a powerful R package that allows the coder the ability to write code with code. The amazing book Advanced R by Hadley Wickham goes into this idea in much greater…

Programatically generate Quarto tabs

Utilizing purrr to programatically generate tabs to organize and present a large list of outputs

Retrieve Pubmed publications using the RefManageR package

For anyone that’s working in academia, it may be useful to keep a tabulation of all of the publications that you are a co-author of. We can use the RefManageR package, which…

Publication Quality Kaplan-Meier Survival Curves using ggplot2

survival analysis

The Kaplan-Meier (KM) survival curves are a hallmark figure that is commonly used to illustrate “time to event” analysis in clinical research. In this illustrative example…

My life in Months - Making a ‘life plot’ in R using ggplot2

This blog post is inspired by Sharla Gefland twitter post found…

Recreating the New York Times mask utilization survey data with the R opensource Leaflet package

Recreating the New York Times mask utilization survey data with the R opensource Leaflet package

Natural Language Processing (NLP) and developing a machine learning classifier on Beyonce and Taylor Swift lyrics #TidyTuesday

machine learning

NLP and building a machine learning clasifier on Beyonce and Taylor Swift Lyrics #TidyTuesday