Mark Michael

For this week's #tidytuesday, I took a look at the relationship between a plant's nutrient, water, and sunlight needs. Surely if you have plenty of two of them you don't need the third.
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Bicycles pretty commonly have no fancy gadgets and functions.
But what you're probably looking for is the performancy, car-enthusiast cars. Think Mazda MX-5 or or a Corolla GR. They have an engine, seats, and not much else.

Did some image processing this weekend with #rstats converting an EKG image into a time series. Really helpful having some understanding of how those results are interpreted. markmichael.dev/posts/2025-1...

Great suggestion! I amended my post an included normalization using both total word count as well as sentence count. The Musgrave Ritual had both the least absolute exclamation points and the least after adjusting for length, making it his most Hemingway story.

First #TidyTuesday using #rstats to see how Hemingway is Arthur Conan Doyle in the complete works of Sherlock Holmes.

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Anchor Down! ⚓

Brands are seeing the value in connecting with smaller influencers with a closer connection to their followers. Now it's a distribution question. How do you gather an army of micro-influencers to promote your product? www.bbc.com/audio/play/w...

Clout is released in the App Store and Google Play! c1p3y.app.link//pe4C7USaQPb. Stoked to start getting feedback from the world!

Incorporating LLMs into Clout feels like giving easy-to-do but hard-to-automate tasks to an incredibly eager intern. #AI

Building an analytics dashboard. It's currently a weekly #R job that posts 5 plots in a discord channel. I'm thinking I can get a lot of mileage with that strategy.