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Rust traits for R users
and how they’ll make your package better
rust
r
package-development
tutorial
In the few months that I’ve been programming in Rust nothing has so fundamentally…
spacetime representations aren’t good—yet
sfdep
rstats
spacetime
My beliefs can be summarized somewhat succinctly.
{cpcinema} & associated journey
talks
Yesterday I had the chance to discuss my R package, {cpcinema} with the Boston useR group. If you’re not familiar with {cpcinema}, please read my previous post. I intended for my talk to be focused on the package’s functionality, how / why I made it, and then briefly on why I didn’t share it widely, my feelings after my seeing the…
The Fallacy of one person, one vote
Quantifying constituency representation
politics
On October 6, 2018, the US Senate voted 50–48 in favor of the appointment of Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. This led many pundits to point out a “disconnect” between the Senate and the body politic. The 50 senators who voted “yea” represent only 44% of the nation’s population. The year prior, Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch…
US Representation: Part I
The Connecticut Compromise and it’s lasting effects
letters
Before the United States created the Constitution, something called the Articles of Confederation defined what the US Government would look like. It was the first attempt at creating some sort of agreement between the 13 original states to form a central government. In…
Introducing: Letters to a layperson
letters
I have been in the world of academia for nearly five years now. During this time I’ve read countless scholarly journal articles that I’ve struggled to wrap my head around. The academic language is riddled with obfuscating words like “milieux” and “nexus” which are often used to…
Chunking your csv
Writing data subsets
R
tutorial
Sometimes due to limitations of software, file uploads often have a row limit. I recently encountered this while creating texting campaigns using Relay. Relay is a peer-to-peer texting platform. It has a limitation of 20k contacts per texting campaign. This is a limitation when running a massive Get Out the Vote…
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