mark michael

Tidy Tuesday: Predicting Castles, Fortresses, and Palaces

R

TidyTuesday

tidymodels

machine-learning

Using tidymodels to classify historical sites based on their age and location.

TidyTuesday: Sister Cities

data science

rstats

tidytuesday

This week’s TidyTuesday explores the connections between sister cities across the globe. Unlike previous posts, this one is going to use shiny to create an interactive app.

Seattle Bike Traffic: Discords and Matrix Profiles

data science

rstats

seattle

open data

cycling

Seattle’s open data portal provides a wealth of information about how people move around the city. In this post, I’ll be exploring bike traffic data to identify interesting…

TidyTuesday 2026-03-24 - Digits of Pi

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. The details for this week can be found here.

TidyTuesday 2026-02-10 Winter Olympics Schedule

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

olympics

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. This week, we are exploring the 2026 Winter Olympics schedule to find patterns in event types, times, and medal events…

Deploying Innovation: Making Healthcare Technology Billable and Integrated

health

billing

product

Integrating cutting-edge medical technology into existing healthcare practices presents a dual challenge: ensuring its clinical efficacy and making it a viable, billable…

TidyTuesday 2026-02-03 Edible Plants

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. The details for this week can be found here.

EKG Digitization

health

data processing

rstats

I occasionally peruse available Kaggle competitions to see if there’s something fun to explore. This week, I came across this competition around converting EKG images into…

Thanksgiving, but make it Gantt

cooking

mermaid

fun

Thanksgiving is one of my favorite holidays. After reading the impassioned arguments of Brunch is Hell: How to save the world by throwing a dinner party, For about the past…

TidyTuesday 2025-11-18 - Sherlock Holmes

data science

tidytuesday

rstats

TidyTuesday is a weekly data visualization challenge. The details for this week can be found here.

From the Furrows - building a grownup backend

development

harvvest

Over a year ago, I committed my first lines of code for our new app. At that point I had used R for advanced data analysis work and dabbled into building my first…