You may heard of “waffle” charts. They’re usually depicted with little blocks in a larger area to give an easy view of proportions. The idea is not any different from a pie chart, or an area chart, or even a treemap…it all depends on your audience and preference. However, it’s suitable for small number of […]
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Analyses of Critical Words & Speeches!
In one of my earlier blogs, I shared the techniques and code to create Word Cloud using Python and Excel together in this article: Word Cloud III – Python & Excel Together Today, building on that, I’ll analyze some of the most historic speeches and/or documents that every kid should read and even memorize part […]
Updated Story Download Page (FREE)
Here’s an updated online commerce page about Twisted Magic Tales with Emojis. Direct link to it This is a secure site from where you can download the ebook (with 7 stories, generated by Rob Deborot, the robot) for free as a PDF. When you click “I want this!” button, be sure to enter 0 (the […]
Quick! Pick a number between 1 and 10!
“Pick a number between 1 and 10”—There’s been plethora of variations of such a game manifested in ways of magic tricks, simulations, statistics, and for sheer intellectual and nerdy curiosity. But is there an answer? Better yet, is there a pattern? If so, what is it…and how can it be explained? Some experiments claim to […]
Sample Size and Margin of Errors. Everything you need to know and ++
I’m not a statistician by profession or training. However, I find it fascinating with even the basics under my belt and find plethora of statistic’s practical usage. Without it, we’re really ignorant. With it, we’re equipped but not always best educated either. I heard the phrase again and again, “Correlation does not equal causation!” and […]
Analysis of Wine Data (analytics)
You’re given a massive list of data about wines around the world, their prices (a huge range from $4 to $3300 per bottle!), expert tasters’ scores, who scored them, how many scored them, name of the wine, description of the win, their origins including country, province, region, subregion, their variety or category, just to name […]
Which Day Were You Born?
Hi again, today I’ll show you how you can magically tell anyone what day of the week they were born! No matter how long ago, even if they even didn’t know 🙂 The magic is in coding (I’ll use Python here) and its calendar module. The complete source is below along with a challenge at […]
More specifically, let me explain why this casual blog is different from other blogs (casual or not). First, the domain is mine (flyingsalmon.net). Then all the modules and underlying techs and supporting files are hosted on my own site (developed by me with a manual meat-grinder) on the same domain. Finally, the blog platform which does the rest of the magic (WordPress) is hosted on the site…I just duct-taped them together.
By the way, you may be wondering why “Flying Salmon” as domain name? Hint: Visit Pike Place Farmer’s Market when you’re in Seattle…you’ll see them flying and is a signature of the fishing heritage of the market.