#+date: <2017-01-11 04:12:52 +1300>
-#+filetags: R analysis economics forecasting
+#+filetags: :R:analysis:economics:forecasting:
+#+title: AUC and the economics of predictive modelling.
The strenght of a predictive, machine-learning model is often evaluated by quoting the area under the curve or AUC (or similarly the Gini coefficient). This AUC represents the area under the ROC line, which shows the trade-off between false positives and true positives for different cutoff values. Cutoff values enable the use of a regression model for classification purposes, by marking the value below and above which either of the classifier values is predicted. Models with a higher AUC (or a higher Gini coefficient) are considered better.
#+date: <2015-03-27 01:24:28 +1300>
#+title: Bluetooth
-#+filetags: muzings
+#+filetags: :muzings:
Wondering which bluetooth chipsets have free firmware. Debian non-free contains Broadcom firmware,
but are more ndiswrapper tricks needed for others?
#+date: <2023-01-02 19:35:28 +0800>
-#+opengraph2: ogimage="https://indieweb.org/File:indiewebcamp-logo-lockup-color@3x.png
-#+filetags: indieweb blogging open_web
+#+filetags: :indieweb:blogging:open web:
+#+title: Bring Back Blogging
After setting a personal objective late last year of reaching [[https://indiewebify.me/send-webmentions/]['level 2' on the indieweb]], with the ability to send [[http://webmention.org/)][Webmentions]], I stumbled on [[https://bringback.blog/][Bring Back Blogging]] yesterday. I love how some people are dedicated to keeping a decentralised internet available and of relevance.
#+date: <2015-03-17 04:08:26 +1300>
#+title: Debian on A20
+#+filetags: :debian:
[[http://www.vanrenterghem.biz/Linux/Installing_Debian_on_Lime2.shtml][Installing Debian on A20 development board]]
#+date: <2015-08-22 01:47:57 +1200>
#+title: Fearless analysis
+#+filetags: :musings:
[[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/19/isis-al-qaida-myths-terrorism-war-mistakes-9-11]['There is no silver bullet': Isis, al-Qaida and the myths of terrorism]]
#+TITLE: Creating a golden spiral in R\r
#+AUTHOR: Frederik Vanrenterghem\r
+#+filetags: :R:code:\r
#+LANGUAGE: en\r
#+PROPERTY: session *R* \r
#+PROPERTY: cache yes \r
#+date: <2023-08-25 21:36:00 +0800>
-#+filetags: Australia
+#+filetags: :Australia:
#+title: Half Time Oranges
Moving countries means learning about a new culture. Even after 10 years in Australia, I am still discovering quirky things people raised here don't think twice about. One of these is the tradition of cutting up oranges for kids playing sports to eat during their half-time. It's not just any fruit - it simply always is oranges. It doesn't have to be oranges, except that it does, as this is just what people expect. Such a lovely tradition! Tomorrow is already the last competition day of netball in WA for the 2023 season, and my first as the parent responsible to bring in the oranges.
#+date: <2023-05-27 16:44:00 +0800>
-#+opengraph2: ogimage="https://www.vanrenterghem.biz/blog/pics/balance-board.png"
-#+filetags: boardriding
+#+filetags: :boardriding:
#+title: I bought a balance board.
With summer having come to an end over here in Western Australia, the
#+date: <2023-05-14 20:32:00 +0800>
#+opengraph2: ogimage="https://indieweb.org/File:indiewebcamp-logo-lockup-color@3x.png
-#+filetags: indieweb blogging open_web
+#+filetags: :indieweb:blogging:open web:
#+title: Implementing Webmention on my blog
Following on from my last [[file:Bring_Back_Blogging.org][post on joining the indieweb]]...
#+date: <2015-11-09 02:20:04 +1300>
#+title: In the pines
-#+filetags: musings
+#+filetags: :musings:
Unplugged in New York.
Sidetracked - The Triffids.
#+date: <2023-02-15 17:04:00 +0800>
#+title: Innovate WA 2023
-#+filetags: management innovation leadership
+#+filetags: :management:innovation:leadership:
Public Sector Network's Innovate WA conference today started with a poll amongst the attendees, asking for our biggest goal or aspiration for the public sector in Western Australia. Overwhelmingly, collaboration came out as the main opportunity for contributors and decision makers in the sector. Closely linked was the desire to better share data between government departments and functions. In his opening address, WA Minister for Innovation Stephen Dawson touched on that, mentioning the State Government is planning to introduce legislation later this year around privacy and responsible data sharing. This will be the first time WA government agencies and state-owned enterprises will be subject to privacy laws, and at the same time is hoped to encourage data sharing that should result in better outcomes for citizens of the state.
#+date: <2015-06-15 12:59:30 +1200>
#+title: Magna Carta
-#+filetags: musings
+#+filetags: :musings:
The spirit of Magna Carta could serve us well today.
#+date: <2017-11-30 21:36:05 +0800>
-#+filetags: R analysis visualisation sqlite3 sql
+#+filetags: :R:analysis:visualisation:sqlite3:sql:
#+title: NYC taxi calendar fun
The Internet Archive contains a [[https://archive.org/details/nycTaxiTripData2013][dataset from the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission]], obtained under a FOIA request. It includes a listing of each taxi ride in 2013, its number of passengers, distance covered, start and stop locations and more.
#+date: <2018-10-12 20:00:01 +0800>
#+title: Nobel prize winner having fun; using Jupyter notebooks.
-#+filetags: people leadership Python
+#+filetags: :people:leadership:Python:
Paul Romer may well be the first Nobel prize winner using Jupyter notebooks in his scientific workflow. On his blog, he explains
his reasoning.
#+date: <2016-09-23 19:47:35 +0800>
#+title: R and Github
+#+tags: :R:code:
Where [[file:posts/first_r_package][my first R package]] was more a
proof-of-concept, I now certainly left the /beginneRs/ group by
#+date: <2022-12-22 06:28:00 +0800>
-#+opengraph2: ogimage="https://www.vanrenterghem.biz/blog/pics/group-photo-RMDH.png
-#+filetags: volunteering
+#+filetags: :volunteering:
#+title: Ronald McDonald House
Synergy's Pricing and Portfolio team took the opportunity at the end of the year to volunteer for [[https://rmhcwa.org.au/][Ronald McDonald House Nedlands]]. This is a charity providing a 'home away from home' for families with a child in hospital in Perth. These families often live hundreds if not thousands of kilometers away due to the size of Western Australia, with Perth the only metropolitan area in the state featuring a children's hospital. Families often stay for weeks and even months in the facility while their child undergoes treatment.
#+date: <2019-04-09 07:59:58 +0800>
-#+filetags: leadership management analytics
-#+title: Setting up an ananlytics practice.
+#+filetags: :leadership:management:analytics:
+#+title: Setting up an analytics practice.
#+CAPTION: Mindmap on setting up analytics practice
#+ATTR_HTML: :class img-fluid :alt Mindmap on setting up analytics practice
#+date: <2022-11-06 23:14:11 +1100>
-#+filetags: tag management data_science customer_analytics analytics leadership
+#+filetags: :management:data science:customer analytics:analytics:leadership:
#+title: WADSIH talk on consumer insights
I recently had the honour of giving a talk about delivering consumer
#+date: <2017-10-17 20:35:40 +0800>
#+title: WA roads in R using Spatial Features.
-#+filetags: R spatial analysis visualisation
+#+filetags: :R:spatial:analysis:visualisation:
How cool is this? A map of Western Australia with all state roads marked in only 5 lines of R!
#+date: <2018-09-14 21:53:53 +0800>
-#+filetags: Apache Kafka R bigdata API
+#+filetags: :Apache:Kafka:R:bigdata:API:
+#+title: Wrapping Confluent Kafka in REST API using R.
It started of as an attempt to analyse some data stored in [[https://kafka.apache.org/][Apache Kafka]] using [[https://www.r-project.org/][R]], and ended up becoming the start of an R package to interact with [[https://docs.confluent.io/current/kafka-rest/docs/index.html][Confluent's REST Proxy API]].
#+date: <2023-10-29 07:15:34+0000>
-#+filetags: mathematics modeling
+#+filetags: :mathematics:modeling:
#+title: Agent-based models and digital twins.
A new approach to modeling using categories and software, facilitating
#+date: <2016-05-06 20:10:31 +0800>
#+title: Azure file storage blobs
-#+filetags: muzings
+#+filetags: :muzings:
Azure's files storage blobs are currently not mountable from GNU/Linux,
except if the box is running in the same Azure region as the blob.
#+date: <2019-06-11 20:46:22 +0800>
-#+filetags: analytics leadership military fintech
+#+filetags: :analytics:military:fintech:
#+title: Different spin to competing on analytics.
The May/June 2019 issue of Foreign Affairs contains an article by
#+date: <2017-10-10 16:56:56 +0800>
-#+filetags: R analysis
+#+filetags: :R:analysis:
#+title: Explore Australian road fatalities.
** Road fatalities in Australia
#+date: <2016-10-05 21:48:11 +0800>
#+title: Facet labels in R.
-#+filetags: R graph code
+#+filetags: :R:graph:code:
Getting used to the grammar of ggplot2 takes some time, but so far it's not been disappointing. Wanting to split a
scatterplot by segment, I used =facet_grid=. That by default shows a
#+date: <2017-10-26 13:06:27 +0800>
-#+filetags: R analysis visualisation births Australia
+#+filetags: :R:analysis:visualisation:births:Australia:
#+title: Fertile summers.
In the Northern hemisphere, it's commonly said women prefer to give birth around summer. It would appear
#+date: <2016-05-18 21:09:02 +0800>
#+title: First R package.
-#+filetags: R code
+#+filetags: :R:code:
Continuing a [[https://web.archive.org/web/20041111125713/http://vanrenterghem.biz/News/index.php?begin=25][long tradition]] with announcing /firsts/, I wrote an
[[http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/?p=R/operatingdays.git;a=summary][R package]] recently, and made it available on
like if today's date is a working day, or more complex ones like the
number of working days between given dates for instance.
-In other news, I received [[http://www.rtl-sdr.com][a new gadget]] in
-the mail today.
+In other news, I received [[http://www.rtl-sdr.com][a new gadget]] in the mail today.
#+begin_quote
RTL-SDR is a very cheap software defined radio that uses a DVB-T TV
#+date: <2016-06-24 14:17:16 +0800>
#+title: Fun with RJDBC and RODBC.
-#+filetags: R code
+#+filetags: :R:code:
I have learned the hard way it is important to be aware that
#+date: <2016-10-03 21:33:50 +0800>
#+title: Generating album art on N9.
+#+filetags: :code:Nokia N9:Linux:
For unknown reasons, the Music application on my Nokia N9 does not
always display the album cover where expected. Instead, it displays the
#+date: <2023-09-02 16:01:16+08:00>
-#+opengraph2: ogimage="https://www.vanrenterghem.biz/blog/pics/house-price-evolution-table.png"
-#+filetags: economics Australia Belgium
+#+filetags: :economics:Australia:Belgium:
#+title: House price evolution.
Back in May 2022, [[file:monetary policy and mortgage products][I made a bet]]
#+date: <2017-02-17 20:07:10 +0800>
-#+filetags: finance fintech analysis forecasting Markov
+#+filetags: :finance:fintech:analysis:forecasting:Markov:
#+title: Loans and semi-Markov chains
Using Markov chains' transition matrices to model the movement of loans from being opened (in a state of
#+date: <2018-06-19 20:51:36 +0800>
-#+filetags: leadership management analytics military
+#+filetags: :leadership:management:analytics:military:
#+title: Managing data science work
It appears to me the cross-industry standard process for data mining
#+date: <2022-05-09 18:48:00 +0800>
-#+filetags: economics finance law Belgium Australia
+#+filetags: :economics:finance:law:Belgium:Australia:
#+title: Monetary policy and mortgage products.
In its latest
#+date: <2016-05-05 21:54:07 +0800>
#+title: New blog activated
+#+filetags: :indieweb:blogging:open web:
Going back to the early days of this site, I added a blog section in
again, replacing the social one, which was overkill. Still need to
#+date: <2023-10-11 23:41:54 +08:00>
-#+filetags: R spatial analysis visualisation
+#+filetags: :R:spatial:analysis:visualisation:
#+title: Obtaining WA Landgate Shared Location Information using R.
Six years ago, [[file:using spatial features and openstreetmap][I wrote about Simple Features (sf) in R]]. I mapped the number of pupils per high
#+date: <2018-01-08 21:04:09 +0800>
-#+filetags: social_media blogging meta_thinking open_web
+#+filetags: :social media:blogging:meta thinking:open web:
#+title: On social media
Dries Buytaert [[https://dri.es/more-blogging-and-less-social-media][wrote last week]]
#+date: <2017-11-16 15:07:59 +0800>
-#+filetags: R spatial analysis visualisation Australia git
+#+filetags: :R:spatial:analysis:visualisation:Australia:git:
#+title: Spatial indexes to plot income per postal code in Australian cities.
Trying to plot the income per capita in Australia on a map, I came
#+date: <2015-11-08 01:09:53 +1300>
#+title: State of SaaS
-#+filetags: musings
+#+filetags: :musings:
Nov 2015. Still no Mailpile 1.0. Roundcube Next MIA. Lest we forget, no Freedom Box.
#+date: <2016-12-10 15:49:02 +0800>
-#+filetags: R fintech analysis
+#+filetags: :R:fintech:analysis:
#+title: Survival analysis in fintech
It is useful to apply the concepts from survival data analysis in a fintech environment. After all, there will
#+date: <2018-09-11 21:09:06 +0800>
-#+filetags: Apache Nifi Kafka bigdata streaming
+#+filetags: :Apache:Nifi:Kafka:bigdata:streaming:
#+title: Using Apache Nifi and Kafka - big data tools
Working in analytics these days, the concept of big data has been firmly
#+date: <2016-10-10 21:48:11 +0800>
#+title: Using R to automate reports
-#+filetags: R code automation
+#+filetags: :R:code:automation:
A lot of information on [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/knitr/index.html][knitr]] is
centered around using it for reproducible research. I've found it to be
#+date: <2017-10-12 21:30:51 +0800>
-#+filetags R spatial analysi visualisation
+#+filetags :R:spatial:analysis:visualisation:
#+title: Using spatial features and openstreetmap
-Turns out it is possible, thanks to the good folks at
-[[http://stamen.com][Stamen Design]], to get fairly unobtrusive maps based
+Turns out it is possible, thanks to the good folks at [[http://stamen.com][Stamen Design]], to get fairly unobtrusive maps based
on the OpenStreetMap data.
-Combining this with a SLIP dataset from the Western Australian
-government on active schools in the state provided a good opportunity to
-check out the recently released
-[[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sf/index.html][sf (Simple
-Features) package]] in R.
+Combining this with a SLIP dataset from the Western Australian government on active schools in the state provided a good opportunity to
+check out the recently released [[https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sf/index.html][sf (Simple Features) package]] in R.
-Simple features are a standardized way to encode spatial vector data.
-Support in R was added in November 2016. For users of the tidyverse,
-this makes manipulating shapefiles and the likes easier, as simple
+Simple features are a standardized way to encode spatial vector data. Support in R was added in November 2016. For users of the tidyverse, this makes manipulating shapefiles and the likes easier, as simple
features in R are dataframes!
#+CAPTION: Plot of secondary schools by student population.
#+ATTR_HTML: :class img-fluid :alt Plot of secondary schools by student population.
[[file:../assets/Western_Australia_metro_secondary_schools.png]]
-[[http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/?p=R/project-wa-schools.git;a=summary][Full
-details in git]].
+[[http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/?p=R/project-wa-schools.git;a=summary][Full details in git]].