This is my personal website built using yihuis blogdown library. It is mostly a showcase of the apps I have created. See below for some recent work and analysis. For more information check out my about page or get in contact using links in the footer.
Graph networks and fraud
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Using R and GIT to host a free pesonal site
When I can I try to use R so when looking to put a personal site together a few years back I thought it was a good time to explore the blogdown package. Using this I was able to build and maintain the site using mostly R, GIT and a good grasp of how to google css/html. I thought I would detail a step by step how to follow this to create a barebones copy and how to host it (for free) on GITHUB鈥檚 pages...
Using BTC exchange to find currency arbitrage
Bitcoin cryptocurrency is treated as both a currency and more and more an asset that is exchanged across multiple FX across the globe. This presents an interesting question does the market balance the FX across currencies in real time? If not there would be room for arbitrage and a real ability to make money transferring between currencies using BTC markets. This quick analysis will look to see if it is theoretically possible to make money changing NZD for BTC then to GBP and back to NZD via a BTC exchange....
Bars per capita in NZ
In New Zealand to distribute alcohol you need to apply to your regional Liqour Licence Authority (LLA) for a permit. The NZ Justice Department produces a list of all liqour licences distributed in a single year. I made this shiny app using a data set from NZ Justice Department and a shapefile/population statistics from Statistics to show for each LLA how many persons per bar, club or liqour retailer. This can be understood as bars per capita for NZ grouped by LLA鈥檚....
Christchurch Election
Christchurch is New Zealand鈥檚 second largest city and in the 2017 election cycle it was a key prize for any of the political parties. I produced a series of interactive graphics to examine the outcome of Christchurch鈥檚 current and past three election cycles. The analysis was built using data sourced from data.govt.nz and elections.org.nz. The boundries of some of the Christchurch electorates reach beyond the city limits but for the sake of this assessment the electorates were kept as a whole....