All blog posts
September 4, 2024
Impact valuation for CBA and SROI
Valuing impacts in monetary terms is a cruical step in CBA or SROI evaluations, but where can we get valuation factors from?
July 16, 2024
Putting economic evaluation into practice
Economic evaluation is data intensive. What are the data requirements and when should you think about them? I've written a guide to help set up the data and information that you'll need to apply economic evaluation to social interventions.
March 25, 2024
A few notes on time-series forecasting with AutoGluon
Some quick notes of a few basic things I've learned about time-series forecasting with AutoGluon
March 18, 2024
Evaluating AutoGluon for forecasting
Taking a look at the accuracy of forecasts produced by the AutoGluon package from Amazon.
February 28, 2024
Building a timeseries data pipeline
Building some simple infrastructure to store and visualise public time-series data
February 8, 2024
Data verbalisation with LLMs
Testing if large language models can be used to verbalise small datasets.
January 31, 2024
Negative filtering with dplyr
Traps for the unwary when using dplyr to filter out rows based on logical conditions.
January 16, 2024
Raindrops keep falling on my head
Various silly measures of how much rain fell on Auckland in 2023.
September 20, 2023
New Zealand retail trends 2022-2023
A look at recent trends in retail sales volumes.
June 29, 2023
Using R in VS Code
Some things I learned while trying out R in VS Code.