In several recent posts I have attempted to convey the nature of how the current primary season is funded (on the Democratic side). In order to assist in conveying this information I have employed several different analytical angles and graphical strat...
This series of posts introduced various methods of exploratory data analysis, providing theoretical backgrounds and practical examples. Fully commented and readily usable R scripts are available for all topics for you to copy and paste for your own analysis! Most of these posts involve data visualization and plotting, and I include a lot of detail and […]
This series of posts introduced various methods of exploratory data analysis, providing theoretical backgrounds and practical examples. Fully commented and readily usable R scripts are available for all topics for you to copy and paste for your own analysis! Most of these posts involve data visualization and plotting, and I include a lot of detail and […]
In a recent issue of Significance, I discovered an interesting – and amuzing – figure, about some box & beard plot, in Dr Fisher’s casebook: Beard the statistician in his den. In French, the box plot (introduced by John Tukey, not George Box, as discussed in a previous post) is popular under the name boîte à moustaches (box with a mustache, for a simple translation). > set.seed(2) > x=rnorm(500) > boxplot(x,horizontal=TRUE,axes=FALSE)…
Introduction Recently, I began a series on exploratory data analysis (EDA), and I have written about descriptive statistics, box plots, and kernel density plots so far. As previously mentioned in my post on box plots, there is a way to combine box plots and kernel density plots. This combination results in violin plots, and I […]
Introduction Last week, I wrote the first post in a series on exploratory data analysis (EDA). I began by calculating summary statistics on a univariate data set of ozone concentration in New York City in the built-in data set “airquality” in R. In particular, I talked about how to calculate those statistics when the data […]
I learned about Lord Rayleigh’s discovery of argon in my 2nd-year analytical chemistry class while reading “Quantitative Chemical Analysis” by Daniel Harris. (William Ramsay was also responsible for this discovery.) This is one of my favourite stories in chemistry; it illustrates how diligence in measurement can lead to an elegant and surprising discovery. I find […]
