Here's a simple trick to get data.table aggregation to play nicely with multivariable functions.| Blair’s Science Desk
I teach you how to use the data.table package to get stats on groups of data.| Blair’s Science Desk
Working with R means using packages. Here's what that means.| Blair’s Science Desk
Here, in no particular order, are some R functions I find useful.| Blair’s Science Desk
When files are nested but sparse, here's a trick to see them all.| Blair’s Science Desk
By default, pandoc creates low-res images in word documents. Here's how to fix that.| Blair’s Science Desk
Tips for working with big data in the terminal| Blair’s Science Desk
A collection of Twitter responses to my interest and inflation research| Blair’s Science Desk
A model of how the number of billionaires per capita relates to a country's GDP per capita| Blair’s Science Desk
I teach you how to use the R linear regression function| Blair’s Science Desk
How to make and use functions!| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how to do some common spreadsheet tasks in R| Blair’s Science Desk
I show you how to remove NA's in R| Blair’s Science Desk
I review some simple ways to access elements of a database in R.| Blair’s Science Desk
I spent the weekend setting up PhotoPrism to host my family's photos. Here's what I learned.| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how to use histograms to get a sense for your data.| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how you get data into and out of R| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how you use R to navigate directories| Blair’s Science Desk
A description of the R data types of that I the most| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how to look at the components of you R vectors.| Blair’s Science Desk
When you program in R, you use vectors. Here's what that means| Blair’s Science Desk
Here's how to use R's vector operations to plot simple functions.| Blair’s Science Desk
Interested in learning R? Here's a way to dive in: use it as a calculator.| Blair’s Science Desk
I wrote a script to renumber my scripts| Blair’s Science Desk
A place to share research tips and tricks| Blair’s Science Desk
A brief biography of the economist Donald Swisher| Blair’s Science Desk
Workers tend to stash more of their savings in self-storage locations| Blair’s Science Desk
A brief biography of the economist Milton Friedman --- the 'other Dr. Milton'| Blair’s Science Desk
A brief description of Milton Fryman's theory of monetary regulation| Blair’s Science Desk
The Swisher effect is the tendency for wage growth to rise and fall with inflation.| Blair’s Science Desk