The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on My Walking Behavior in 2020

In this post, we will take a look back at 2020, and analyze my step...

2021, Jan 25   —  13 minute read

Extracting Step Count, Heart Rate, and Activity Data From the Mi-Band 5: A Guide with Gadgetbridge and R

In this post, we will see how to extract step count, heart rate, and activity...

2020, Dec 13   —  12 minute read

Analyzing the Harmonic Structure of Music: Modes, Keys and Clustering Musical Genres

In this post, we will examine the harmonic properties of songs in my music collection....

2020, Nov 23   —  19 minute read

Deep Learning for Image Recognition: Classifying the Musical Genre of Album Covers (Metal vs. Rap)

In this post, we’ll go over a data analysis I did as part of a...

2020, Oct 21   —  17 minute read

Revisiting the Network of Influentual Rap Albums: Community Detection with the Louvain Algortithm

In this post, we will return to the data set that we analyzed in the...

2020, Sep 23   —  11 minute read

Using Transfer Learning, Natural Language Processing and Network Analysis to Identify Influential Rap Albums

In this post, we will analyze data from two different sources: Pitchfork music reviews of...

2020, Jul 06   —  24 minute read

Word Clouds for Management Presentations: A Workflow with R & Quanteda

In this post, we’ll take a look at a basic text visualization technique we’ve seen...

2020, Jun 07   —  12 minute read

Useless P-Values: The Twitter Bot

In this post, we will discuss the ideas and code behind a Twitter bot (called...

2020, May 10   —  6 minute read