Adam Laiacano

I'm a data engineer at tumblr and this is my blog. I write mostly about personal projects, data science, R/python, and various curiosities.

  1. A video of Hadley Wickham (author of ggplot2, plyr, reshape, stringr, lubridate, etc) talking about “tidy data” at the NYC Open Statistical Programming Meetup.

    Highly recommended for anyone who works with data from multiple sources that comes in various structures.

  2. 2011-12-20
    #rstats #machine learning #data analysis #data science
  3. Data Anxiety: Boundary Sheep

    dataanxiety:

    A sweet sheep from an unlikely source: The TwitPic images of “disruptive” tech innovator @Boundary.

    via boundary @b6n on TwitPic

    MAKE SENSE OF YOUR NETWORK

    We’ve built an incredible platform for visualizing, exploring, and troubleshooting data networks.

    VISUALIZE Traffic, Resources, Users

    For any who may be interested, Boundary is…

    This looks like it could be awesome. Based on the examples and open job descriptions, I’m expecting an easy-to-use wrapper around d3.js and ggplot2.

  4. 2011-09-07
    #sheep #beta #data visualization #network #data analysis