Tuesday, October 23, 2018

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How To Customize Plotly's Modebar

There's a little bar with buttons that appears when you hover at the top of a plotly graph. It is called the 'modebar'. There is essentially no documentation on customizing it, so I've typed up what I've done to help the next person who needs this.

add button to plotly modebar


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Monday, October 8, 2018

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Role Of Luck In Fantasy Football

Luck is a massive factor in fantasy football...
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Friday, October 5, 2018

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Why Does Mars Appear To Move Backwards Sometimes

From Earth, Mars appears to move backwards sometimes. How does this happen if it's in an elliptical orbit around the Sun?
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Wednesday, October 3, 2018

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Why Is Overfitting Dangerous

Imagine you have some measurements and you want to approximate an underlying model for them. Shouldn't you pick the one that most closely matches the data?
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Friday, September 28, 2018

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How Do I Convert An Election Poll Into A Win Probability

You normally see polls as something like 51% candidate A, 47% candidate B, and 2% other. How do you estimate a win probability from that?
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Wednesday, September 19, 2018

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Understanding Half-Life

The rate at which radioactive atoms decay can be given as the 'half-life' and I've run into a couple of misconceptions around that so I tried simulating it.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018

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I Fell Prey To Selection Bias

These things are sneaky and I got caught in one that I feel is worth typing up...
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Sunday, August 19, 2018

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How Do I Make A Div-Specific Modal In Vue

I most recently wrote about making a div-specific modal, and this post just shows how to do it in Vue.


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Tuesday, August 14, 2018

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How Do I Make A Modal Dialog For A Div Instead Of The Whole Page?

In my quick scan for modal libraries for javascript/html/css, everything was for the entire page. I wanted something for a specific div so I put together a quick demo of one way to do this.



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Saturday, July 28, 2018

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How Do I Make Plotly Faster?

Plotly is a really nice plotting library, but it can be quite slow. Is there any way to speed it up?
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Saturday, July 7, 2018

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How Do You Make Plotly's Click And Double-Click Events Work Together?

There's an annoying issue in plotly. If you listen for both click and double-click events, the click events will be triggered on double clicks also. Is there a way to effectively have a 'single click' event?

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Sunday, June 10, 2018

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Estimating How Often Balls Might Collide Mid-air At Topgolf

I took a crack at estimating how often balls would collide while in the air at Topgolf.

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Friday, June 1, 2018

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What Are The Actual Yields From Investing In The Dow (DJIA)?

What sorts of real returns did US investors get throughout history?

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