While recently looking at submissions for H1B Visas, I noticed that a not insignificant number of companies had submitted proposals to receive visas for persons who would be working as recruiters. While I know very little about the labor maket for recruiters, I wanted to examine that data to see which companies were applying for … Continue reading Is There A Shortage of Recruiters? A Look at H1B Proposals
If are looking to hire an analytics professional, please send me a message at [email protected]. I am looking for new opportunities and available to start ASAP. sPowerlifting in the United States has seen explosive growth in recent years, both in popularity and participation. National federations like USA Powerlifting have reported a sharp increase in membership, with … Continue reading The Rise of Powerlifting in the United States: A Data-Driven Look at Trends and Patterns
A. Background The Open Powerlifting initiative attempts to create an accurate and open archive of all powerlifting meet data throughout the world. As someone who recently started competing again after a six year delay from powerlifting, I often mess around with the Open Powerlifting data as it’s of personal interest. Most of the anlysis that … Continue reading Powerlytics: Impact of Age, Gender, and Body Weight on Total Weight Lifted in Powerlifting Meets
A. Background In previous posts, I covered a number of useful functions and packages for writing reusable code. I wanted to extend on that information by providing a working example of how to put together a function. In particular, I will walk through the process of generating a function that executes evaluation of a time … Continue reading Writing Functions in R: Example One
The majority of my interaction with the ggplot2 package involves the interactive execution of code to visualize data within the context of exploratory data analysis. This is often a manual process and quite laborious. I recently sought to improve these tasks by creating a series of user defined functions that contained my most commonly used … Continue reading Automate the Boring Stuff: GGPlot2
Not too long ago, I was on the job market looking for work as an applied statistician or data scientist within the the online marketing industry. One thing I’ve come to expect with almost every company is some sort of homework assignment or challenge where a spreadsheet would be presented along with some guidelines on … Continue reading Homework during the hiring process…no thanks!
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