Words growing or shrinking in Hacker News titles: a tidy analysis
June 08, 2017
An analysis of one million Hacker News titles, and what topics and technologies are changing in frequency over time.
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Slides, videos, and tweets from the 2017 New York R Conference
May 22, 2017
Some notes from the 2017 New York R Conference, and slides and video from my talk.
How we built Tagger News: machine learning on a tight schedule
May 15, 2017
A discussion of the algorithm training and development behind our TechCrunch Disrupt hackathon project
Gender and verbs across 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis
April 27, 2017
An analysis of "he " vs "she " in plot descriptions from Wikipedia.
Examining the arc of 100,000 stories: a tidy analysis
April 26, 2017
An analysis of over 100,000 plot descriptions downloaded from Wikipedia, particularly examining which words tend to occur at which point in a story.