UPDATE: As mentioned in the previous post, after posting this I found that the folks at Isle Box had this idea before me and beat me to the punch on doing it. I’ll leave this up since I think this post …
UPDATE: Ooops ! I found after posting this that the folks at Isle Box had this idea before me and beat me to the punch on doing it. I’ll leave it up for now since I think the following post on …
A road trip route to all the National Parks in the lower 48 states Read more »
Golf Trip Router at www.golftriprouter.com will help you plan the route if you want to take a road trip to some of the best public courses in the country. It’s still needs to be polished and there is some additional functionality …
Introducing Golf Trip Router – A Routing Tool to Plan Your Golf Road Trip Read more »
Previously, I had used R to plot daily totals for a years worth of my walking and cycling activity. As I accumulated a second year of data, I wanted to see a month-to-month comparison of the 2 years. Once the …
Using R and ggplot to compare months across different years Read more »
In a previous post, I had calculated the frequency of stopwords within the Brown corpus. The Brown corpus is considered to be fairly representative of standard English usage. As part of the project I was working on, the question arose …
Looking to take a baseball road trip to a number of ballparks this year but don’t know how to start planning ? I have updated basesroaded.com for the 2016 season. You can search for trips for up to 17 ballparks …
2016 MLB road trip planning now available at basesroaded.com Read more »
As part of a project I was working on, I was computing the frequency of individual stopwords within different collections of words. (I will write up more specifics of this soon). As I computed these stopword frequencies for one collection of …
My pal Steve and I have had a long running, lighthearted argument over the concept of the “career year” in baseball. It’s not uncommon to hear someone say “He’s coming off a career year” or “He’s having a career year”. …
These are just some crude examples of the sort of graphics you might find useful. Keep in mind that the geographic divisions can be changed, i.e. most things we can do by ward we could precinct, maybe even by block …
On a not infrequent basis, if I’m unable to obtain data from a website via API, I find myself writing a program to scrape the data from the website (a note to all you Little Leaguers: always abide by the …
Using the Python requests package to set User Agent for scraping a website Read more »