Blog on Yves Amevoin

If your future depends on your performance...

Mon, 20 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Some people worry about everything. Worry about the future, worry about their jobs, worry about the next opportunity or about their money. Worry about how they can manage time to achieve the highest output if they are under pressure. This post is to discuss how you should feel when you know your future depends on your performances. I decided to write this post mostly because of my internship, and I will come back on the topic with another post.

A Journey on learning a new language

Wed, 15 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I decided a few years ago to learn new languages. But I was so good at procrastination that times. And a few years later (today) still nothing big. As I am around 50 days of German learning on Duolingo (53 to be more concrete), this post is just to speak about how much it is important to learn a new language. It sounds hilarious to create a blog post on achievement every 50 days right? But this is a good way of motivating myself and motivate others. So why the heck would you want to learn a new language, since you already know how to speak English?

Simple views of Sub-Gaussian mean estimators: Part 1/3

Sat, 22 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000

I have had the chance to work on Sub-Gaussian mean estimators during my seminar on my master degree. This is a simple work on a research topic where the student has to dig in an area of research and understand deeply the connections between practical and theoretical views of the subject. I am planning to work on three main blog posts to explain (I hope in a more simple fashion) the concept behind Sub-Gaussian mean estimators and how it can shape future research in statistics.

On difficulties to write a statistic blog

Tue, 11 Jun 2019 00:00:00 +0000

When I started this blog six months ago, I thought I would be able to publish one article per week, despite my busy schedule. I knew writing articles would be time consuming but I by far underestimated the effort and time I have to put in order to come up with interesting contents. This article is to give some key advises I learnt from my failure, especially for those who want to start a statistics blog. My purpose is not to talk about how to write articles - I am just at the beginning- but to share my experiences. Here are five little advises I will never forget and keep in mind for the future.

Data wrangling after pdf extraction with R - Part Two

Mon, 04 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In my day to day work, I use to extract data from PDF files - especially reports. For a recent analysis, I had to work on data extraction on PDFs from WHO reports on meningitis. I wanted to find an automated way to extract tables from multiple PDFs and work on them to generate report using data-frames/tibble. A little search leads me to the tabulizer package which depends on rJava. In this series of posts, I will show how I handled data wrangling just after table extraction using tabulizer on one PDF report. This post is the second and last one in the series. You may want to take a look on the first post.

Data wrangling after pdf extraction with R - Part One

Thu, 24 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

In my day to day work, I use to extract data from PDF files - especially reports. For a recent analysis, I had to work on data extraction on PDFs from WHO reports on meningitis. I wanted to find an automated way to extract tables from multiple PDFs and work on them to generate report using data-frames/tibble. A little search leads me to the tabulizer¹ package which depends on rJava. In this series of posts, I will show how I handled data wrangling just after table extraction using tabulizer on one PDF report.

Analysing military coup in Africa

Sat, 12 Jan 2019 00:00:00 +0000

This first post will be a little political. As I read on BBC last Monday about an attempt coup in Gabon which has not succeed, I came up with the same question as the website: Is Africa seeing fewer military takeover attempts? In the BBC’s article, they use data from researchers of University of Central Florida to give at glance the answer to the question. Which end up to be yes. I wanted to reproduce the same type of analysis to have an idea of what has been in Africa these recent years, using data from Center for Systemic Peace ¹ on coups d’Etats, since 2017. I use a descriptive approach in this analysis.