Rasmus Bååth

This January I played the most intriguing computer game I've played in ages: The Return of the Obra Dinn. Except for being a masterpiece of murder-mystery storytelling it also has the most …

There are tons of well-known global indicators. We've all heard of grossdomestic product, life expectancy, rate of literacy, etc. But, eversince I discovered pinballmap.com, possiblythe world's …

Upon discovering that the tiny town I live in has a pinball arcade withover 40 tables (!), I got a bout of pinball fever. I fancy myself afairly accomplished video game player, but was disappointed to discoverthat my ability to keep Mario alive didn't tra

Five years ago I started a new role and I suddenly found myself, astaunch R fan, having to code in Python on a daily basis. Working withdata, most of my Python work involved using pandas, the …

In statistics, there are a number of classic datasets that pop up in examples, tutorials, etc. There's the iris dataset (just type iris in your nearest R prompt), the Palmer penguins (the …

I've now been in the industry long enough to know that meetings are often too long. No one likes to be in meetings, and the longer they are, the worse it is. Not only do I know most meetings are …

The Stan project for statistical computation has a great collection of curated case studies which anybody can contribute to, maybe even me, I was thinking. But I don't have time to worry …

As I'm in the industry now I figured I needed some business cards and as it seems the 90s never left us and Japanese monsters are hip again, I decided to make them Pokémon themed.I think …

Bayesian data analysis is cool, Markov chain Monte Carlo is the cool technique that makes Bayesian data analysis possible, and wouldn't it be coolness if you could do all of this in the browser? …

On the 21st of February, 2015, my wife had not had her period for 33 days, and as we were trying to conceive, this was good news! An average period is around a month, and if you are a couple trying to …