Statistics
When browsing social media and adjacent sites, I’ve always wondered how ratings are implemented. This may sound pretty boring, but let me raise an important example: Imagine you’re browsing a community and searching for the most popular posts. In most cases, you’ll only find recent posts because
Studies
When averaging values, sometimes you want to penalize inequality or variation, for example, when you value similar medium values more than extreme differences. When using the arithmetic mean, you merely get the same sum, regardless of having the same results or huge differences between the values. To illustrate the differences
R
When you're dealing with data that you want to explore, analyze, and visualize, you have a lot of options. Most programming languages have packages and libraries that add the capabilities you might need, but there's one ecosystem that stands out: R. Built over the course of
R
When putting out content on the internet, it's interesting to see how everything performs, especially over time. While some topics might gain relevance, others may become less important. This is affected by broader trends in the industry, but also the nature of the content itself. Some blogs are