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.