The sixth annual (and first virtual) “New York” R Conference took place August 5-6 & 12-15. Almost 300 attendees, and 30 speakers, plus a stand-up comedian and a whiskey masterclass leader, gathered remotely to explore, share, and inspire ideas. We had many awesome speakers, many new and some, returning: Dr. Rob J Hyndman (Monash University),… Continue reading
Data scientists and R enthusiasts gathered for the 5th annual New York R Conference held on May 9th-11th. In front of a crowd of more than 300 attendees, 24 speakers gave presentations on topics ranging from deep learning and building packages in R to football and hockey analytics. Speakers included: Andrew Gelman, Emily Robinson, Max… Continue reading
Ten years ago Josh Reich held the first ever New York Open Statistical Programming Meetup at Union Square Ventures. Back then it was called the New York R Meetup and 21 people RSVP’d. I discovered the Meetup three months later thanks to Andrew Gelman’s blog and by then the RSVP count had doubled and Drew… Continue reading
Highlights from the 2016 New York R Conference Originally posted on www.work-bench.com. You might be asking yourself, “How was the 2016 New York R Conference?” Well, if we had to sum it up in one picture, it would look a lot like this (thank you to Drew Conway for the slide & delivering the battle… Continue reading
On April 24th and 25th Lander Analytics and Work-Bench coorganized the (sold-out) inaugural New York R Conference. It was an amazing weekend of nerding out over R and data, with a little Python and Julia mixed in for good measure. People from all across the R community gathered to see rockstars discuss their latest and… Continue reading
The other night I attended a talk about the history of Brooklyn pizza at the Brooklyn Historical Society by Scott Wiener of Scott’s Pizza Tours. Toward the end, a woman stated she had a theory that pizza slice prices stay in rough lockstep with New York City subway fares. Of course, this is a well… Continue reading
For the past few weeks Time Out New York‘s Dating columnist, Jamie Bufalino, has been fielding letters discussing the ratio of homosexual to heterosexual questions he answers. The readers suggested that disproportionate attention is paid to Gay and Lesbian issues compared to the Gay and Lesbian proportion of the general population. Jamie rudely called his readers “ass-wipes”… Continue reading
Eye Heart New York has a post with a graph showing the distribution of health code violations and the letter grades they received. Kaiser at Junk Charts takes the original data and makes a few graphs of his own. Based on those visualizations it seems that there is not much difference by borough or by… Continue reading
In previous posts I talked about collecting temperature data from different rooms in my house and automating that process using Docker and GitHub Actions. Now it is time to analyze that data to figure out what is happening in the house to make informed decisions about replacing the HVAC units and how I can make… Continue reading
My R-using family have a very old house with uneven heating and cooling. We are going to replace the HVAC system soon and rather than just install a new system I wanted to make data-driven decisions about the replacement. Since I have a couple of ecobee Thermostats which have remote sensors, I figured there must… Continue reading
