Products of Procrastination

Hi, I’m Owen 👋 I’m a data scientist/engineer living in Cardiff, United Kingdom. This is a collection of projects I have spent time on while I was supposed to be doing other things.

Modular R code for analytical projects with {box}

How we create modular code and use it across multiple projects

New blog, who dis?

I honestly did intend to just write a blog post… I guess this is the post?

Multiple Names for Datasets in R Packages

Can we use multiple names to refer to the same dataset, without including multiple copies of it in the package?

Debugging: Installing NVIDIA Drivers on Fedora

TL;DR: I had mega issues with getting NVIDIA graphics to work on Fedora. This is a play-by-play of my debugging process, and ultimately the solution turned out to be rather simple.

AFK, back in 2 months

Some things I learned which definitely have completely nothing at all to do with my job.

Using RStudio on a Google Cloud Dataproc cluster

Getting set up to use Spark with R on a Google Cloud computing cluster.

Love Machine: Automating the romantic songwriting process

Because being creative is hard and machine learning is the answer to everything.

Scale up your interest: key steps for getting into data science

You have just encountered the term “data science” for the first time, and it sounds like it might be interesting but you don’t have a clue what it is. Something to do with computers? Should you bring a lab coat, or a VR headset? Or both? What is a data and how does one science it?

H2O.ai: Going for a paddle

A brief dive into the H2O machine learning framework

Adding a Git Bash alias

Another useful time-saving trick

Markov and Churchill: an exploration of predictive text

A foray into memoryless stochastic processes

A Token Update

It’s been a while…

Summary of 30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset

A condensed version of TDTVOD

Snippets in RStudio

Mini time-saving abbreviations!

BANEScarparking - an R package

January exams are imminent, so I should be revising. Therefore I have written an R package…

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset: Days 26-30

The epic finale of a month-long journey

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset: Days 21-25

The penultimate chapter as TDTVOD plunges headlong into December

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset: Days 16-20

TDTVOD Goes Fourth

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset: Days 11-15

The third riveting instalment of TDTVOD

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset: Days 06-10

The second instalment of an ongoing dataviz project

30 Days, 30 Visualizations, 1 Dataset

A challenge to exhaustively explore and analyse a single dataset

Derivation of backpropagation, plus a network diagram

Deriving the backpropagation formulae, and a network diagram for one of my previous projects

Saving/loading RStudio settings with Command Prompt

This one doesn’t really deserve the title of ‘project’, but I thought I’d share it anyway.

Placement Year Salaries - Getting data from HTML

Notes from my first web data project

IE Automation with VBA in Excel

A rough-and-ready automated name-searching program in VBA

Digit Recognition - Building a neural network from scratch in R

Notes from my very first project: building a simple neural network for handwritten digit recognition