https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/ Recent content in Blog & Thoughts on Personal website of Amit Grinson. Data Analytics & Visualizations Hugo -- gohugo.io en Amit Grinson Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/window-function-with-groupby/ Sat, 08 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/window-function-with-groupby/ A short overview of how to use window functions within a group by query. Going over 3 examples that help illustrate how to combine the two, as well as a better understanding the order of opertaions in SQL https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/follow-the-money-with-a-recursion/ Sun, 16 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/follow-the-money-with-a-recursion/ Though not commonly used, recursive CTEs can be a great tool to work with hierarchal formatted data. In this post we learn to use them to identify where money was moved to by following users transfer activities https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/regex-in-sql/ Mon, 29 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/regex-in-sql/ Going over various cases of text operations in a data analysis flow, showing how to solve it with R/Python compared to SQL. https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/isvis-talk-post/ Tue, 28 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/isvis-talk-post/ Summarizing the things I love about and learned from data visualization challenges as part of a talk I gave at the Israeli visualization conference, 2022. https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/r-and-python/ Thu, 02 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/r-and-python/ Using both R and Python we answer various questions about the Dog of Zurich dataset. Try it yourself and get some hands-on data analysis practice https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/review-of-an-sql-interview-question/ Tue, 31 Aug 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/review-of-an-sql-interview-question/ Solving an SQL interview question using three different approaches. https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/exploring-ice-cream-locations/ Wed, 10 Feb 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/exploring-ice-cream-locations/ Exploring maps and distances to various Golda ice-cream locations throughout Israel https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/automated-plot-with-github-actions/ Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/automated-plot-with-github-actions/ a light introduction to GitHub Actions for automating a plot of frequently used R packages. https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/my-year-in-r/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/my-year-in-r/ Looking back at my year of learning R https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/printing-survey-table/ Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/printing-survey-table/ Aestheticaly printing descriptive variables from your survey data https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/uncertainty-in-the-israeli-lottery/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/uncertainty-in-the-israeli-lottery/ Exploring the probability of winning the lottery at and by a given trial with the Geometric distribution https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/learning-tfidf-with-political-theorists/ Sun, 31 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/learning-tfidf-with-political-theorists/ Learning tf-idf through political theorists. https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/sharing-interactive-charts/ Fri, 01 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/sharing-interactive-charts/ A walk through for sharing your interactive visualizations on GitHub Pages https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/israeli-elections-on-twitter/ Mon, 20 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/israeli-elections-on-twitter/ Analyzing tweets from the the Israeli elections week https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/update-exam-grades-easy-with-r/ Sat, 15 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/update-exam-grades-easy-with-r/ In this post I discuss my use of the xlsx and clipr packages for optimizing how I updated students exams https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/eliud-kichoge/ Fri, 07 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/eliud-kichoge/ In this post I plot Eliud Kichoge new marathon record using rvest to get data from wikipedia and ggimage for plotting images as points https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/bomb-shelters/ Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.amitgrinson.com/blog/bomb-shelters/ While rockets were fired towards Israel I decided to take the opportunity and plot bomb shelters in Beer-Sheva.