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.

Using R in VS Code

June 29, 2023

Some things I learned while trying out R in VS Code.