This is my first attempt at looking at the RMS Titanic dataset on kaggle. This has been described several times, with many tutorials. This is a list of passengers from the Titanic and the purpose of this long-running kaggle competition is to predict which passengers survived the shipwreck. To start we can load in the data and take a peek at what is inside. I am going to take a look at it using R.

A near national holiday, the Super Bowl is an annual tradition. The NFL championship game is one of the most watched American telecast every year. Because of this, the costs surrounding a Super Bowl are quite large. Today we will take a look at the cost to air a thirty second commercial during the broadcast as well as the ticket price to actually attend the game. For what its worth, this type of analysis is not the first: countless others have taken a look at some or all of this before. However, I will do it again myself and since this is a blog with an analytics bent, I will go beyond the typical viz people have done for this in the past.

In general I think winters are the worst. The days are short and dreary. They are cold and wet. Thankfully, these types of days are often fewer around these parts than other places in the country. Today we will take a (quick) look at the sun and weather in different parts of California. One thing I wanted to do was work with time series data, so this provides a nice experience.

While watching the Cooking Channel, I saw a commercial for a show called Cheap Eats. I was intrigued and found myself on its website. Turns out, it is a lot like Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives where the host goes around to eat good food at restaurants around the country. The premise is that the host, Ali Khan, can only spend up to $35 in a particular city or metro area for breakfast, lunch, a snack, and dinner. Today we will visualize some of the aspects of the show.

Let’s take a look back at part of the storied history of Thierry Henry. A former footballer, the French striker has plied his trade at a few clubs over his two decade career. His most extensive spell was at Arsenal Football Club from 1999 to 2007 (with a small stint in 2012) and it was there that he truly made his name. Further biographical details will be spared since they are readily available elsewhere. However it should be noted that Henry stands as one of my favorite players of all-time. His playing for Arsenal, my favorite club, has much to do with that I imagine.