Knut Behrends Personal Blog, v3

🐣 I’ve made a new attempt to start blogging in November 2017. Still experimenting with the ‘serverless’ way of website management, and trying out many different ways of publishing and visualizing.

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

#NHSCrisis? A quick fact check about staff numbers within the UK’s National Healthcare Service, NHS.

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

Analysing the inspiring tweet stream created during the 34C3 conference

Codesnippets and cheatsheets for my own personal use.

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

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

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

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

A weekend project from Summer 2016

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.

While doing some quality-checks in Kaggle Dataset “European Soccer Database”, 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 until… when, exactly?

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

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.