How You Should Keep Score in Pickup Basketball 2024-08-27 TLDR: For full court pickup basketball you should play by 2s and 3s. Make-it-take-it by 1s and 2s is also fine. Adapt your game according to the scoring and possession system in place. Steph Curry is … gt dplyr tidyr ggplot2 purrr forcats scales DT stringr
Quantile Regression Forests for Prediction Intervals 2021-04-21 In this post I will build prediction intervals using quantile regression, more specifically, quantile regression forests. This is my third post on prediction intervals. Prior posts: […] This … workflows ggplot yardstick gt forcats scales pander
Simulating Prediction Intervals 2021-04-05 Part 1 of my series of posts on building prediction intervals used data held-out from model training to evaluate the characteristics of prediction intervals. In this post I will use hold-out data to … workflows devtools gt ggplot forcats scales pander
Understanding Prediction Intervals 2021-03-18 Prediction intervals provide a measure of uncertainty for predictions on individual observations. This post… […] This is the first of three posts on prediction intervals (Part 2 employs … AmesHousing dplyr rsample recipes gt parsnip workflows ggplot yardstick stringr tidyr forcats scales pander
Influencing Distributions with Tiered Incentives 2020-11-02 In this post I will use incentives for sales representatives in pricing to provide examples of factors to consider when attempting to influence an existing distribution. For instance, if you have a … ggplot dplyr purrr forcats
Feature Engineering with Sliding Windows and Lagged Inputs 2020-10-12 The new rsample::sliding_*() functions bring the windowing approaches used in slider to the sampling procedures used in the tidymodels framework1. These functions make evaluation of models with … httr jsonlite dplyr lubridate rsample slider devtools recipes parsnip workflows tune purrr tidyr forcats ggplot broom
A National Popular Vote Weighted by the Electoral College 2020-09-11 TLDR: In this post I discuss using a national popular vote weighted by the electoral college to elect the president. This approach would empower voters by expanding political influence outside of … pins readr dplyr janitor tidyr forcats ggplot
Tidy Pairwise Operations 2020-06-03 In May of 2021 I co-wrote pwiser a package for doing pairwise operations in {dplyr} that provides a much smoother approach than the one I build-up to in this post. […] Say you want to map an … AmesHousing dplyr corrr tidyr stringr purrr forcats ggplot devtools weights
Riddler Solutions: Pedestrian Puzzles 2020-03-04 This post contains solutions to FiveThirtyEight’s two riddles released 2020-02-14, Riddler Express and Riddler Classic. I created a toy package animatrixr to help with some of the visualizations and … tidyr dplyr animatrixr knitr ggplot ggforce purrr forcats
