Anime: The good, the bad and the popular

As indicated in my previous post, I am going to analyse a tidy tuesday dataset for this blog post. I will be using the R programming language and the excellent series of packages called the tidyverse. This week’s tidy tuesday dataset is about anime, and comes from MyAnimeList.net. I find this especially exciting since I have enjoyed quite a bit of anime in my life - much to the dismay of my girlfriend. [Read More]

Elephants don't fly

Just some motivational content that I need to externalise. Looking at the blog’s logo, the image of Dumbo is supposed to come to mind. Even though you don’t generally explain a rather obvious logo, I think it is the easiest way to lead into the lesson I am trying to learn. To state it simply, learning to do proper data analysis and machine learning is hard. But what I am realising more and more, is that thinking about learning it is even harder. [Read More]

Hello World

Welcome to my irrelevant blog! This is the first step on a quest to master the complicated twists and turns of the machine learning world. As the blog’s slogan suggests, the goal is to learn and to keep things fun. To achieve this I will pick the most absurd and light-hearted projects I can think of! To ensure I remain focused, I will start with short posts about the following topics: [Read More]