Coronavirus Positive Tests in Hawaii
Posted on April 26, 2020
| Mike Ching
Today I decided to look at the tests for coronavirus that are being done in Hawaii. It looks like the number of positive tests are slowing down. I had a sense that the population is also probably healthier from social distancing, so I wanted to look at the trend in tests and positive tests.
library(dplyr) ## ## Attaching package: 'dplyr' ## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats': ## ## filter, lag ## The following objects are masked from 'package:base': ## ## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union library(ggplot2) library(lubridate) ## ## Attaching package: 'lubridate' ## The following object is masked from 'package:base': ## ## date library(scales) library(tidyr) library(zoo) ## ## Attaching package: 'zoo' ## The following objects are masked from 'package:base': ## ## as.
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Hawaii Coronavirus Update 2020-04-19
Posted on April 19, 2020
| Mike Ching
Here’s some more of my efforts to look at the local coronavirus data. I also thought it would be helpful to update the numbers this weekend since they look to have plateaued a bit this past week. In this post I look at the released cases versus the total to see how many active cases are still being tracked. I also look at the new cases by island since there were a couple of clusters on the Big Island and Maui.
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Hawaii Coronavirus Update 2020-04-14
Posted on April 14, 2020
| Mike Ching
In my last post I used data from the New York Times Github repository. The authors update it within a day or two but I found a new crowdsourced data source from the local tech community that is typically updated within minutes of the Department of Health data posting.
Data Loading The Google Sheet is very nice to look at but I’ve had issues recently with loading data directly from Google sheets.
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Coronavirus in Hawaii
Posted on April 4, 2020
| Mike Ching
Coronavirus is all anyone can think about these days, and the New York Times has become a repository for USA case data for some reason. They have been publishing the data on Github for now.
Data Loading I loaded the data directly from the NY Times repository. The repository has county and state lists but because I was interested in the different counties in Hawaii, I used the county file.
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Password Strength and Tidy Tuesday
Posted on January 16, 2020
| Mike Ching
I just found out about Tidy Tuesday, an educational exercise from the R for Data Science folks. The idea is that they publish a dataset every Tuesday for people to play around with. If you make something you’re proud of you can publish it on Twitter and use the hashtag #tidytuesday. I haven’t tried it before, but today’s one was a topic that was of interest to me–computer security and passwords.
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Restarting with California Health Interview Survey
Posted on January 13, 2020
| Mike Ching
Lately this blog has had a lot of descriptive posts about my life but not much that stretches my R abilities. Later this year my organization is holding its research day, so I decided to start practicing on a dataset that I last used about 7 years ago. The California Health Interview Survey is a survey of households that is weighted to be representative of the non-institutionalized population of California.
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How Much Water Garbanzo Beans Absorb in an Overnight Soak
Posted on January 12, 2020
| Mike Ching
I made a recipe for falafel today that involved soaking dry garbanzo beans/chickpeas. I happened to have weighed the dry garbanzo beans before soaking to see how much I had. Before soaking I had 403 g beans. After soaking in tap water at 77 degrees F the weight was 795 g. The beans gained 392 g of water or 97.3% of their dry weight. That’s close enough to call it double!
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Running Mileage in 2019
Posted on January 5, 2020
| Mike Ching
After a great 2019 of running, I wanted to look back to see how far I had run. I regularly use a Garmin GPS watch to track my runs. The Garmin app and website let me look back at 12 months but after January 1, the 12 months was updated to February 2019 to January 2020 so I couldn’t see my 2019 totals anymore. I also sync to Strava but the Strava 2019 Year in Review mileage total (1216 miles) was off of the Garmin calculation that I saw at the end of December (~1300 miles).
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Prime Rib Temperature
Posted on December 24, 2019
| Mike Ching
We started a new family Christmas Eve tradition with roast prime rib. This year was a 6.61 lb bone on prime rib.
library(dplyr) ## ## Attaching package: 'dplyr' ## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats': ## ## filter, lag ## The following objects are masked from 'package:base': ## ## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union library(ggplot2) dat <- tbl_df(read.csv("../datasets/Prime_rib_temp.csv")) I followed the Serious Eats recipe.
I cut off the bone then salted and let the bones and meat dry brine overnight.
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Iolani Football 1945-2019
Posted on December 14, 2019
| Mike Ching
This week the local paper released a season recap of my alma mater’s football team. Included in the article was a link to game results dating back to 1945. It looked like there was an opportunity for a little data analysis on things like home and away records, records versus specific schools, etc. I downloaded the data and cleaned it for analysis in Google Sheets.
library(dplyr) ## ## Attaching package: 'dplyr' ## The following objects are masked from 'package:stats': ## ## filter, lag ## The following objects are masked from 'package:base': ## ## intersect, setdiff, setequal, union library(lubridate) ## ## Attaching package: 'lubridate' ## The following object is masked from 'package:base': ## ## date library(ggplot2) iolani <- tbl_df(read.
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