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Tracking My Steps and Weight

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I used to weigh around 270 lbs and realized that I needed to make some changes to my lifestyle. I started to track calories and managed to get my weight down to 250. I got a…
Jun 18, 2026
Kevin Swenson

Energy Usage

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This is a quick little post where I make sure that I can still update this blog, and that I’m not missing any packages.
Apr 29, 2026
Kevin Swenson

Big Mac Index

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This data is from Tidy Tuesday. I am going to load the data up, it’s an S3 object then extract the data I want out to a data frame that is just the big mac data.
Feb 5, 2024
Kevin Swenson
 

Spotify API and Automating Album Rankings

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For the last 14 years I’ve volunteered as a radio dj for KSUA and Overkill Radio. One of the most fun (and most work) things I do for my show every year is go through my new…
Feb 2, 2024
Kevin Swenson

Getting Started with Tidymodels

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When learning things I always like to use Palmer Penguins! It’s a fun dataset and after doing so many projects with iris data or car data it’s nice to change it up.
Sep 16, 2023
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Learning webscraping

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I’ve always wanted to scrape the metalstorm.net top albums list since it seems a more accurate measure of how the mainstream metal community ranks albums. Rateyourmusic top…
Aug 25, 2023
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Count of Degrees Awarded by Program R Shiny Project

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Currently R Quarto blogsite yaml rules generates static sites with limited Shiny support. To view this project you will need to click this link to go to the online…
Aug 18, 2023
Kevin Swenson

Iris KNN Example

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This is mostly another practice page so I can get used to working with this package and learn about K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN).
Jul 10, 2023
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The Hardest Problem in 7th Grade

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Before we get into the weeds about “what is math” from the perspective of an undergrad, lay person, and (hopefully) PhD I want to talk about one of my favorite challenge…
Aug 19, 2022
Kevin Swenson
 

First Post

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I’m excited for this blog and show! I’ve been putting it off for a while, but I recently had a class about writing and logic that made me realize I love writing more than I…
Aug 16, 2022
Kevin Swenson

Job Vs Salary Research Project

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The last few years of politics in the US have given a lot of airtime to the discussion about fair wages and who is “overpaid in the workplace”. Recently discussion on UAF…
Apr 16, 2022
Kevin Swenson
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