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Which NBA Teams Are Best At Drafting?

Every season, countless hours are spent scouting and evaluating players, determining team needs, and making mock drafts. After all, the draft is supposedly the great equalizer. The Cleveland Cavaliers were the worst team in the NBA in the ’02-’03 season, drafted LeBron James that spring in the ’03 draft, and were playing in the NBA Finals four years later.

Last updated on Jan 6, 2022 10 min read

Building Dashboards in R

In today’s post, I introduce R shiny, its benefits, and syntax by creating a simple app that calculates a student’s final grade in a class.

Last updated on Jun 18, 2021 6 min read

The Dangers of Visualizations

Mark Twain once said “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.” Up to now, I have covered different ways to display and make conclusions based on data. So are we just telling lies? All I am saying is that when you work with data, you have to be careful.

Last updated on Jun 16, 2021 4 min read

The Ethics of Data Visualizations

The purpose of this article is to bring to attention various pitfalls that could be made during the data visualization process and to urge a constant awareness to the way graphs and figures could be perceived.

Last updated on Jun 14, 2021 6 min read

Mapping Your Visited Countries

You might have realized that I loved to travel from my Biography. Up until now, I have kept a list of the countries I have visited in the Notes app on my phone. Today, I thought to myself: “What if I combined my passion for traveling and R?” Let’s make a map of the countries I have visisted.

Last updated on Jun 10, 2021 4 min read

Making Interactive Tables in R

If you are anything like me, you find R’s deafult print function for data frames and matrices to be an ineffective way to display information, especially in an HTML report. R has numerous ways to create tables, yet the DT package is unparalleled because of all of its features!

Last updated on Jun 8, 2021 5 min read

Investigating Chicago Traffic Crashes with RSocrata

I found an awesome table on a website, how do I get it into R? In this post, I bring in “wild caught” data, using RSocrata, to create insights.

Last updated on Jun 4, 2021 5 min read

Creating Interactive Maps of Earthquakes in R

Maps are a meaningful and simple way of presenting data. There are many ways to create maps in R, but one of the best is the leaflet package because it allows you to make them interactive! Today, I wanted to walkthrough using it and a couple of its many features.

Last updated on Jun 2, 2021 225 min read

Exploring Diversity in California Schools

Keeping with the theme of EDA, in this post I will explore the ethnic diversity of the student population in schools in California. I will also show an example of when and how to bring in an external dataset to support your investigation

Last updated on May 28, 2021 14 min read

The Ins and Outs of Exploratory Data Analysis

Where do you start when you find an interesting dataset? Today I talk about and show my process of exploring data by investigating post-college salaries

Last updated on May 26, 2021 19 min read