My first blog posts

2017-11-18

šŸ£ Iā€™ve made a new attempt to start blogging in November 2017. Still experimenting with the ā€˜serverlessā€™ way of website management, and trying out many different ways of publishing and visualizing.

Blood Pressure in the US population

2018-02-10

Gaining insight into health data. First time for me to work with such a dataset.

UK NHS Medical Staff, 2009-2017

2018-01-24

#NHSCrisis? A quick fact check about staff numbers within the UKā€™s National Healthcare Service, NHS.

Global Interest in Bitcoin over Time

2018-01-21

Visualizing (1) Wikipedia Pageviews, (2) NYT Article Mentions, (3) Google Searches and (4) Exchange Rates from 2012 to early 2018.

Comparing 33C3 and 34C3 tweets

2018-01-07

Analysing the inspiring tweet stream created during the 34C3 conference

Some Gists

2018-01-06

Codesnippets and cheatsheets for my own personal use.

2018-01-01

Analysis of ~1000 tweets about the R language. Visualing the interactions of the active Twitter users as a directed graph. (Draft)

Soccer-Database: Extracting goal data from XML fragments

2017-12-18

Using R to process XML fragments stored in a relational database.

Soccer-Database: Generating schema diagrams

2017-12-17

This blog post shows 3 times the same database diagram, at varying levels of detail.

Learning jq

2017-12-16

A grabbag of jq commands Some notes about learning jq, the lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor.

Soccer World Cup 2016 - Betting At My Workplace - Part I+II

2017-12-09

A weekend project from Summer 2016

Body Height and BMI in European Soccer Players over the years 2008-2016

2017-12-04

How did Body Mass Index and body size of professional football players change over the years 2008-2016? Body size, not so much. It has stayed rather constant. Average height, body weight and Body Mass Index have fallen.

The oldest European Soccer Players in the late 2000s

2017-12-03

While doing some quality-checks in Kaggle Dataset ā€œEuropean Soccer Databaseā€, I found that in the late 2000s most of the oldest professional players active in top clubs were goalkeepers. Another veteran midfielder was Tugay Kerimoğlu, from Turkey. Born in 1970, he played the English Premier League untilā€¦ when, exactly?

More about the Hugo Software

2017-11-23

Links important to me: Blogdown Book – Hugo Documentation – Hugo Shortcodes – Webapps with Go – Go Docs

European Soccer Players and their BMI

2017-11-22

Players in European soccer leagues have a Body Mass Index (BMI) that is normally distributed with a mean of 23 and an sd of 1.3. This is independent of body size.