Little Projects

With the tidyverse and tidymodels at their

A wizard holding a wand casts a 'reticulate` spell and Tibbles the cat is enveloped in smoke and reappears as a cuddly pair of pandas.

Reticulating Tibbles
11 min
Chunks of R and slithers of Python; in the caldron boil and bake
May 1, 2024

Jun 28, 2024

A plaque on the gate-post of Thomas Bayes's former home confirming he lived there from 1731 to 1761. The word 'probably' is spray-painted below the plaque.

Bayes Lived Here (Probably)
16 min
Predicting the interest rate for a fixed-rate mortgage using Bayesian regression
Jun 12, 2023

Jun 30, 2024

A monkey with badge number 15 sits at a typewriter and types: 'To be. Or not to be. That is the gazornanplatt.'

An Infinite Number of Monkeys
10 min
Quantile regression, property sales and anything could happen eventually
Feb 24, 2023

Jul 2, 2024

A caveman stands inside a cave viewing the wall. There are two paintings. A rabbit with a mark references a further picture below of bowl of steaming soup. The second painting is of a fearsome beast with a different mark referencing a picture of a stick man running for his life.

A Footnote in History
8 min
The grammar of tables, footnotes and occupations consigned to history
Nov 1, 2022

Jun 30, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament in bright yellow below a blue sky. Smoke wafts into the sky from several points and the peace symbol takes the place of Big Ben's clock.

Finding Happiness in The Smoke
9 min
Cluster analysis and the characteristics that bind London boroughs
Mar 19, 2022

Jun 30, 2024

A boot with a strap leans against a pile of ribbon-rolls

Bootstraps & Bandings
13 min
Decades-old residential property bands and inference using a sample of those recently sold
Mar 8, 2022

Jun 29, 2024

A buoy sways in the sea water in front of the coastal cliff. On it, a sign points left for dolphins and right for orca. And a dolphin and orca are seen in the foreground reading the sign.

Sea Monsters that Lost their Way
13 min
Predicting uncertain species of cetacean strandings recorded by the Natural History Museum
Dec 4, 2021

Jun 29, 2024

Two frosty fists bump

A Frosty Deal?
7 min
Quantitative textual analysis, word embeddings and analysing shifting trade-talk sentiment?
Sep 18, 2020

Jun 29, 2024

Three bowls of porridge rest on a long table. The small bowl has no heat rising from it, whilst the largest bowl is steaming hot. The middle bowl, with a spoon wedged in it, looks just right.

The Goldilocks Principle
5 min
Simulating stock portfolio returns inspired by bowls of porridge left by three bears
Aug 9, 2020

Jun 29, 2024

Two meerkats cuddle under an umbrella shielded from the pouring rain

Weathering the Storm
3 min
Timeseries comparison and the impact of Covid-19 on the financial markets by sector
Aug 2, 2020

Jun 29, 2024

Wordcloud emphasising this site's most used R packages and functions

Favourite Things
5 min
R packages & functions that make doing data science a joy based on usage across projects
Jul 26, 2020

Jun 30, 2024

The enlarged face of a compass with West and East breaking off and repeatedly drifting away and drifting back

East-West Drift
6 min
Animated dimension reduction and East-West historical UN voting patterns
Jan 9, 2019

Jun 29, 2024

A small clump of trees with a

Seeing the Wood for the Trees
4 min
Visualising small multiples when crime data leave you unable to see the wood for the trees
Jan 1, 2019

Jun 28, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with rain pouring down on a man holding an umbrella and a raven swooping across the sky

Can Ravens Forecast?
8 min
Time series forecasting using cloud services spend data
Jul 29, 2018

Jun 29, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament and three clouds in Spring colours, e.g. yellow and green. Flowers shoot up from the word

Six Months Later
6 min
Exploring colour palettes and small multiples using cloud services spend data
Apr 2, 2018

Jun 29, 2024

A micro-forest in the middle of nowhere has the sign

Criminal Goings-on in a Random Forest
10 min
Criminal goings-on in a random forest and predictions with tree-based and glm models
Mar 1, 2018

Jun 29, 2024

The keys of a typewriter with

Plots Thicken
7 min
Every story needs a good plot. Which plot types generate the most interest on Wikipedia?
Feb 7, 2018

Jun 28, 2024

Cluster of Six
9 min
Exploring parliamentary voting patterns with hierarchical clustering
Jan 29, 2018

Jul 3, 2024

A spade is seen tossing fresh dirt from a deep hole. A granted planning permission and an empty new spade box lie nearby.

Digging Deep
10 min
Do we see more planning applications when house sales are depressed?
Jan 10, 2018

Jun 28, 2024

Young woman in a black dress, with a pony-tail moving in the gentle breeze, lies in a rowing boat in the middle of a still lake reading

Surprising Stories
6 min
A little interactive geospatial mapping and an unexpected find
Dec 20, 2017

Jun 28, 2024

A painted map of part of central London including the border of SW10 sited next to Chelsea FC

House Sales
7 min
A series of events, such as the Financial Crisis and the 2016 Brexit vote, that damped down residential property sales in London
Dec 17, 2017

Jun 29, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with the text

Where Clouds Cross
9 min
Visualising the dozens of overlapping sets formed by categories of cloud services
Nov 14, 2017

Jun 28, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with the text

Let’s Jitter
5 min
Welcome to the tidyverse with data ingestion, cleaning and tidying. And some visualisations of sales data with a little jittering.
Sep 12, 2017

Jun 28, 2024
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