Little Projects

With the tidyverse and tidymodels at their

A spade is seen tossing fresh dirt from a deep hole. A granted planning permission and an empty new spade box lie nearby.

Digging Deep
9 min

Do we see more planning applications when house sales are depressed?

Jan 10, 2018
Oct 23, 2026

A micro-forest in the middle of nowhere has the sign

Criminal Goings-on in a Random Forest
11 min

Criminal goings-on in a random forest and predictions with tree-based and glm models

Mar 1, 2018
Oct 23, 2026

A Novel Analysis — Literally
9 min

Novel readability & lexical dispersion

Oct 9, 2025
Oct 7, 2026

A monkey with badge number 15 sits at a typewriter and types: 'To be. Or not to be. That is the gazornanplatt.'

An Infinite Number of Monkeys
10 min

Quantile regression, property sales and anything could happen eventually

Feb 24, 2023
Oct 6, 2026

The keys of a typewriter with

Plots Thicken
11 min

Build a serverless Shiny app with WebR to compare Wikipedia page views for chart types — directly in your browser.

Feb 7, 2018
Oct 3, 2026

Three bowls of porridge rest on a long table. The small bowl has no heat rising from it, whilst the largest bowl is steaming hot. The middle bowl, with a spoon wedged in it, looks just right.

The Goldilocks Principle
6 min

Simulating stock portfolio returns inspired by bowls of porridge left by three bears

Aug 9, 2020
Sep 27, 2026

Wordcloud emphasising this site's most used R packages and functions

Favourite Things
5 min

R packages & functions that make doing data science a joy based on usage across projects

Jul 26, 2020
Sep 26, 2026

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with the text

Where Clouds Cross
9 min

Visualising the dozens of overlapping sets formed by categories of cloud services

Nov 14, 2017
Sep 26, 2026

A painted map of part of central London including the border of SW10 sited next to Chelsea FC

House Sales
8 min

A series of events, such as the Financial Crisis and the 2016 Brexit vote, that damped down residential property sales in London

Dec 17, 2017
Sep 25, 2026

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with rain pouring down on a man holding an umbrella and a raven swooping across the sky

Can Ravens Forecast?
8 min

Time series forecasting using cloud services spend data

Jul 29, 2018
Sep 24, 2026

A boot with a strap leans against a pile of ribbon-rolls

Bootstraps & Bandings
13 min

Decades-old residential property bands and inference using a sample of those recently sold

Mar 8, 2022
Sep 24, 2026

Cluster of Six
9 min

Exploring parliamentary voting patterns with hierarchical clustering

Jan 29, 2018
Jul 3, 2024

A plaque on the gate-post of Thomas Bayes's former home confirming he lived there from 1731 to 1761. The word 'probably' is spray-painted below the plaque.

Bayes Lived Here (Probably)
16 min

Predicting the interest rate for a fixed-rate mortgage using Bayesian regression

Jun 12, 2023
Jun 30, 2024

A caveman stands inside a cave viewing the wall. There are two paintings. A rabbit with a mark references a further picture below of bowl of steaming soup. The second painting is of a fearsome beast with a different mark referencing a picture of a stick man running for his life.

A Footnote in History
8 min

The grammar of tables, footnotes and occupations consigned to history

Nov 1, 2022
Jun 30, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament in bright yellow below a blue sky. Smoke wafts into the sky from several points and the peace symbol takes the place of Big Ben's clock.

Finding Happiness in The Smoke
9 min

Cluster analysis and the characteristics that bind London boroughs

Mar 19, 2022
Jun 30, 2024

The enlarged face of a compass with West and East breaking off and repeatedly drifting away and drifting back

East-West Drift
6 min

Animated dimension reduction and East-West historical UN voting patterns

Jan 9, 2019
Jun 29, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament and three clouds in Spring colours, e.g. yellow and green. Flowers shoot up from the word

Six Months Later
6 min

Exploring colour palettes and small multiples using cloud services spend data

Apr 2, 2018
Jun 29, 2024

A buoy sways in the sea water in front of the coastal cliff. On it, a sign points left for dolphins and right for orca. And a dolphin and orca are seen in the foreground reading the sign.

Sea Monsters that Lost their Way
13 min

Predicting uncertain species of cetacean strandings recorded by the Natural History Museum

Dec 4, 2021
Jun 29, 2024

Two frosty fists bump

A Frosty Deal?
7 min

Quantitative textual analysis, word embeddings and analysing shifting trade-talk sentiment?

Sep 18, 2020
Jun 29, 2024

Two meerkats cuddle under an umbrella shielded from the pouring rain

Weathering the Storm
3 min

Timeseries comparison and the impact of Covid-19 on the financial markets by sector

Aug 2, 2020
Jun 29, 2024

A wizard holding a wand casts a 'reticulate` spell and Tibbles the cat is enveloped in smoke and reappears as a cuddly pair of pandas.

Reticulating Tibbles
11 min

Chunks of R and slithers of Python; in the caldron boil and bake

May 1, 2024
Jun 28, 2024

A small clump of trees with a

Seeing the Wood for the Trees
4 min

Visualising small multiples when crime data leave you unable to see the wood for the trees

Jan 1, 2019
Jun 28, 2024

Young woman in a black dress, with a pony-tail moving in the gentle breeze, lies in a rowing boat in the middle of a still lake reading

Surprising Stories
6 min

A little interactive geospatial mapping and an unexpected find

Dec 20, 2017
Jun 28, 2024

A silhouette of the Houses of Parliament with the text

Let’s Jitter
5 min

Welcome to the tidyverse with data ingestion, cleaning and tidying. And some visualisations of sales data with a little jittering.

Sep 12, 2017
Jun 28, 2024
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