With an hour remaining until the final Carolina Godiva Track Club Summer Track Series all-comers track meet, let’s dash out a blog post as if more excitement was needed. Having created the R data frame (track_res_all) with the 2018 results via the code at the bottom of the last blog post, it is my pleasure […]
Using Excel (.xls) files containing World Masters Athletics age-graded track tables on Howard Grubb’s website (http://www.howardgrubb.co.uk/athletics/data/wavacalc06.xls), I have an R data frame that stores age-graded track performances for this year’s Carolina Godiva Track Club Summer Track Series track meets. These are all-ages, all-abilities races hand-timed by volunteers and often begun by our fearless, ear-protecting, honorable […]
While I am on vacation, I made a personal commitment to complete a blog post about the Carolina Godiva Track Club Summer Series by the time of today’s meet. A personal goal is to contribute to the improvement of public health by encouraging more Americans to exercise. The Carolina Godiva Track Club, of which I […]
I use the R package openxlsx, by Sydney’s Alexander Walker, a few times per week. When professional stakeholders love Microsoft Excel, we give them the .XLSX workbooks that they seek. Using setColWidths (…, widths = “auto”)usually works to widen columns based on the values present in the workbook. However, I experienced earlier today a failure of this auto-widening feature. […]
[Mara Averick (@dataandme) of #DataScience Twitter fame is keynoting Analytics>Forward 2018 in Durham, North Carolina on March 10, 2018. I hope to see you there!] Introduction I call this series “Play by play” because unlike a tutorial, I am documenting most mistakes, success, and discoveries rather than designing this writing as an explicit guide. I aim this […]
In the spirit of Mara Averick’s (keynoting March 10, 2018 in Durham, NC!) “contributing to the tidyverse” presentation at rstudio::conf 2018 (PDF slides here). This is a play-by-play of my work to update another’s R package that hopefully will stimulate others to get involved in the open-source community and teach an important lesson by example. […]
Attending data science networking / training events consistently triggers me to learn stuff I otherwise would not have, regardless of what material is available online. The following use of R (#rstats) to download “YES” RSVPs for the past four years’ Analytics Forward was greatly inspired by hearing RTP actuarial expert, Brian Fannin, present “Go Ape for […]
