Cascadia Analytics Blog

How common is "backwards" pitching in Major League Baseball?

Conventional pitching tactics suggest starting batters off with a fastball on the first pitch. As it happens, some pitchers are more conventional than others. Read more...

Topic Modeling and Visualization of Russian IRA Tweets

In this post we take a look at the 3 million Russian Internet Research Agency (IRA) tweets released by FiveThirtyEight. Read more...

Running R in Docker - Part 3 - Knitting RMarkdown

In the third and final post in the series, we look at using Docker to support reproducible research - specifically, knitting an RMarkdown document representing research results. Read more...

Running R in Docker - Part 2 - Creating Images

In this second post in the "R in Docker" series, we see how to install packages in our own images. Read more...

Running R in Docker - Part 1 - Getting Started

More and more data scientists are using Docker to support reproducible research and ease deployment of applications. This series of posts helps you get started using R in Docker. Read more...

Analysis of Baltimore Policing Open Data

A two-part article with visualization and analysis of Baltimore's open data on arrests and calls for service. Read more...

Geocoding with Nominatim and Docker

Docker makes it much easier to set up a local instance of Nominatim for OpenStreetMap-based geocoding. Read more...

Notebook and Slides for CascadiaRConf talk

I've published an RMarkdown notebook and slides for this Saturday's talk in Portland. Read more...

Sierra Leone Census R Package

If you find yourself needing to analyze or visualize data from the 2015 Sierra Leone census, we've created an R package to make it easier. Read more...

French Presidential Election Data Project

Through our Data for Democracy participation, we scraped elections data from the French Interior Ministry site and made it available as an R package. Read more...

Cascadia R Conference - Portland - June 3

Scott Came, Cascadia Analytics Principal, will give a lightning talk at the inaugural conference in Portland June 3. Read more...

Cascadia Analytics Launch

On April 26, 2017, Cascadia Analytics formally opens for business. Read more...