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