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Tag Archives: r

Visualizations of Canabalt scores scraped from twitter

16-Feb-11

Canabalt, a ridiculously addicting web/IOS-device game allows one to show off their high scores, and their not-so-high scores to Twitter. Each of these tweets contains a bit of information – The score represented in meters, the method of death (hitting a wall and tumbling to my death) and the device (iPhone). Other useful information can [...]

A few quick observations on StackOverflow questions tagged R

12-Nov-09

While browsing through Pete Skomoroch’s delicious bookmarks(which is a full-time job in and of itself), I learned that StackOverflow.com makes their underlying q&a data available. Just for fun, I wrote a few quick queries against this dataset, centered around the R tag. Here are a handful of findings – data is through 31-Oct-2009. Some of [...]