YawpR
@yawpr.bsky.social
A blog/newsletter of #rstats stuff by Damie Pak (@damiepak.bsky.social). Kinda like a travel blog but it's about transitioning into industry from a postdoc. I create silly things for you to enjoy. Entirely free.
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Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song?
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
October 21, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Can you predict when Lou Bega's greatest hit, Mambo No. 5, was released based on the names of all the women mentioned in the song?
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
Weirdly yes.
yawpr.substack.com/p/project-a-...
#databs #rstats
I have built the stupidest #rstats thing in the world. What if you had to race 6.4 miles against a Boston train and you're looping Taylor Swift's All Too Well (10 minute version) and you want to know where exactly key lines will be sung on your race? I made a Shiny app for that.
#databs #python
#databs #python
Building notes: Behold the stupidest thing ever built in R, ye mighty, and rejoice!
Looping Taylor Swift's All too Well (10 minute version) to pace yourself in a race against a literal train in Boston... But as a Shiny app. Come let's lose brain cells together.
open.substack.com
September 5, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I wanted to add videos to Quarto Closeread.
I did with local video files.
But realized I couldn't upload such big files into Github.
Hours wasted whoops!
#databs #rstats
yawpr.substack.com/p/building-n...
I did with local video files.
But realized I couldn't upload such big files into Github.
Hours wasted whoops!
#databs #rstats
yawpr.substack.com/p/building-n...
Building notes: Quarto Closeread but make it tuberculosis in opera (FAILURE!)
I was curious if I can add videos and audios for the storytelling effect. Short, simple, but ultimately a failure.
yawpr.substack.com
August 29, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I wanted to add videos to Quarto Closeread.
I did with local video files.
But realized I couldn't upload such big files into Github.
Hours wasted whoops!
#databs #rstats
yawpr.substack.com/p/building-n...
I did with local video files.
But realized I couldn't upload such big files into Github.
Hours wasted whoops!
#databs #rstats
yawpr.substack.com/p/building-n...
"Aw, wicked, this gommage’s comin’ down hard, I’m tellin’ ya"
A #databs love letter to one of the greatest video game to be released this year
A #databs love letter to one of the greatest video game to be released this year
Building notes: What if we were French and being wiped out by a giant woman in Boston?
Every year, a giantess paints an ever decreasing number. Everyone with the age at or above that number dies. Can we code this up in Python and animate this in R?
yawpr.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"Aw, wicked, this gommage’s comin’ down hard, I’m tellin’ ya"
A #databs love letter to one of the greatest video game to be released this year
A #databs love letter to one of the greatest video game to be released this year
Using #ggplot to make iconic scenes from musicals so I can annoy my wife with a silly game of charades. I am 100% sure this is what #rstats was designed for.
Building notes: Using ggplot2 for a visual charade on musicals (Or how I bring whimsy to my wife's life)
"I feel like if I can’t guess it, I’m uncultured; if I do guess it, I’m a theater kid… Either way, I lose," my wife said with the same enthusiasm of going to a funeral.
yawpr.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I tried to remake a subway art in #ggplot2 in #rstats. I... semi succeeded? I learned that you can Voronoi diagrams in ggplot.
Building notes: Remaking a piece of subway art that I had to stare at for a long time (because Boston transit can be like that sometimes)
Exactly as my Lana Del Ray-like song title suggests. What again was supposed to be silly turned to be an interesting adventure.
open.substack.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Just a repost of a previous document I made about simulating linear regression. Also showing off the Tufte layout from #Quarto! A little primer in #rstats
Write-up: Simulating linear regression
Something I made before. Just a way to teach linear regression by simulation.
yawpr.substack.com
August 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Can you incorporate a smaller animation into a broader animation in #ggplot? (Can you make a goose walk across the screen with a knife In its beak? Answer: Yes) #rstats
Building notes: Untitled Goose Game but make it ggplot
Can I animate a goose chasing you down with a knife in its beak?
open.substack.com
August 9, 2025 at 11:58 PM
An extremely, extremely short update. I was dying from a cold AND from figuring out how to webscrape something. ChatGPT never helps me at all #databs
The Week of August 4th
I had a cold all week. And I survived. A very short update.
open.substack.com
August 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
An extremely, extremely short update. I was dying from a cold AND from figuring out how to webscrape something. ChatGPT never helps me at all #databs
A fool's errand? Making a 3D ggplot? I had Chappell Roan's newest single on loop and tortured myself into getting something complicated to work when I found an easier solution #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats
Building notes: Linear regression viz in 3D
Listening to Chappell Roan’s new single “Subway” on an hour-long loop—can’t tell if I’m crying because of the song or the XQuartz installation error.
open.substack.com
August 5, 2025 at 1:23 AM
A weekend building notes for making something really stupid. I wanted a stupid image/gif to pop up every time there's an R error. It worked but at what cost.
#rstats
#rstats
Building notes: The infamous sticky note from Sex and the City and R
Some women walk away from their bugs. I turned mine into visual commentary. And just like that, it wasted HOURS of my life!
yawpr.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 10:38 PM
A weekend building notes for making something really stupid. I wanted a stupid image/gif to pop up every time there's an R error. It worked but at what cost.
#rstats
#rstats
I'm trying this thing where I write as I go on a tiny project. I thought I could make a better version of the Sankey diagram? (Spoiler: it did not work out)
#rstats #ggplot2
#rstats #ggplot2
Building notes: Sankey diagrams
I don't like Sankey diagrams for visualizing job offers. One woman's attempt to visualize it to her taste and realize her abject failure.
open.substack.com
August 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Hello world! First post. Wanna see what happens when a theater kid is really into #rstats?
The Week of July 28th
Positron! Pandas! Oh My!
open.substack.com
August 1, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Hello world! First post. Wanna see what happens when a theater kid is really into #rstats?