Outsider Data Science

Putting what’s in there, out there. With R!

Note

This blog is for showing my experiments in R coding. If you are interested in my musings on investments, my LinkedIn posts are the place to find them. You can also visit artsteinmetz.com for more info.

Switching to Quarto from Blogdown

quarto

blogging

It all started when I decided to change up my Hugo theme. Up until that point I was happily using the Blogdown add-in for RStudio to initiate new blog posts. At some point…

Covid Cases vs. Deaths

ggplot2

tidymodels

tidyverse

COVID

Estimate the average lag between a positive COVID-19 case and a death.

What Do The Ramones Want?

ggplot2

tidytext

music

Recently I saw a tweet that shared this hilarious poster of Ramones “wants”. Very cool, but how accurate is it? I asked the graphic designer and he says he took some…

State Taxes: It’s not just about Income

tax

plotly

Much of the discussion around tax burdens focuses on income taxes but, at the state level, that leaves out two other big sources of tax liability, sales and property taxes.…

Gender Diversity in R and Python Package Contributors

github

gender

Over the last few years I have really enjoyed becoming part of the R community. One of the best things about the community is the welcoming, inclusive and supportive nature…

Why I migrated from Excel to R

R

Excel

I’ve been a spreadsheet power user from the days of Visicalc for the Apple II. I migrated to Lotus 1-2-3, to…

Why I migrated from Excel to R

R

Excel

I’ve been a spreadsheet power user from the days of Visicalc for the Apple II. I migrated to Lotus 1-2-3, to…

Solving the Letterboxed Puzzle in the New York Times

puzzle

recursion

What is the difference between “computer programming” and “data science?” To someone not invovled in either they look much the same. Most data scientists are also coders…

Arthur Steinmetz

Where Are The Libertarians?

politics

ggplot2

At the risk of losing half my readers in the first paragraph, I’ll share my political views. Generally, I believe in “free people and free markets.” That makes me a small-L…

Rick and Morty Palettes

clustering

rick and morty

palettes

This was just a fun morning exercise. Let’s mix multiple images to make…

Is Free Pre-K in NYC Favoring the Rich?

web scraping

education

maps

A hallmark of mayoral administration of NYC Mayor Bill DeBlasio has been free pre-K for all New York families. When the program was initially rolled out there were complaints in some quarters that upper-income neighborhoods were…

New Winter Sports for New Countries

web scraping

sports

Norway is a tiny country that punches way above its weight in the Winter Olympic medal count. We are not surprised as those folks are practically born on skis. At the same…

Live Fast, Die Young, Stay Pretty?

music

web scraping

health

gapminder

Live fast, die young, stay pretty? That’s the stereotype for rockers, or it was. We only need to look at Keith Richards, over 70 and going strong, to find a major…

Plumbing the Depths of My Soul (in Facebook)

text mining

facebook

First post! Let’s start out nice and easy. No big…