Residuals for Breakfast

Granville Matheson: Data Person

Creating an API for 4.2M texts with tidytext, RSQLite, dbplyr and plumber

a.k.a. A foray into data engineering

It turns out, even simple metrics are much more difficult to calculate, if you have lots and lots of data

Posted by Granville Matheson Monday, March 30, 2020

Nonlinear Modelling using nls, nlme and brms

a.k.a. When straight lines don't provide enough of a thrill any longer

A brief demonstration to grok the syntax for fitting the same model using nonlinear least squares, and frequentist and Bayesian multilevel modelling

Posted by Granville Matheson Saturday, March 28, 2020

Using Readability Formulas to Assess Linguistic Complexity of TED Talks using koRpus

a.k.a. Readability is related to everything

An analysis of the readability of TED talk transcripts and their relation to viewership and reactions

Posted by Granville Matheson Thursday, March 21, 2019

My Physiological Response to my PhD Defence: Acute and Chronic

a.k.a. A dataviz self-portrait, and an introduction to rwithings

An analysis of my physiological reaction to my PhD thesis defence using data from my activity tracker

Posted by Granville Matheson Monday, December 10, 2018

Making a Reminder Bot for Automating Meeting Organisation using R and Google Sheets

a.k.a. How to get your boss to buy you a Raspberry Pi to play with

Guide for how to create your own reminder bot to automate away all the boring parts of arranging (journal club) meetings

Posted by Granville Matheson Saturday, September 29, 2018