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Niclas

On this blog I write about different methodologies on working with data and computation. Personally I’m not so interested in the results, but rather the way they are obtained.

Forecasting Wikipedia page views with seasonal ARIMA models

One may say that the future is not predictable, which is true most of the time. However humans recognize repeating patterns and know that it is colder in winter than in…

How to create a choroplath map in R

Now and then, you come across choropleth maps presented as animated graphics, like on /r/dataisbeautiful. Personally, I’m not so interested in the end result, but rather in…

Solving SAT using Integer Programming

The fact that the Boolean satisfiability problem can be solved using integer programming techniques is known to me for quite some time. However I have rarely read about it…

The Zabusky-Kruskal scheme

While browsing Wikipedia for random bits of mathematical knowledge, I stumbled across the the article on Korteveg-De Vries equation (hereafter abbreviated as KdV-equation)…

How to solve a zero sum game using linear programming

My last undergraduate course in mathematics was about Game Theory, which was quite some time ago. One of the lectures covered Neumann’s Minmax-Theorem, and during this…

The answer to an ever repeating question

Everyone who studies math or has studied math in the past, has heard the question \(\aleph_0\)-times: “What are you going to do with a degree in math?”. I gave an…