Amit Levinson

Risk Data Analyst

Payoneer

Hi! I’m Amit Levinson, a self-taught coder and an avid data wrangler. I currently live with my wife and our dog Milo in Tel-Aviv, Israel. My interests include Privacy & Trust, Data analytics, Visualizations, Statistics and R. That’s also what you’ll probably find me writing about on this website 😄

Make sure to visit R-bloggers & R-weely to explore many more tutorials and resources. Enjoy!

Interests

Data analytics
Storytelling and data visualization
Trust & privacy

Education

MA in Sociology & Anthropology, 2018-2021

Ben-Gurion University
BA in Sociology, Anthropology & Political Science, 2018

Ben-Gurion University

Blog Posts

Distances to Golda Ice-Cream Locations in Israel

Exploring maps and distances to various Golda ice-cream locations throughout Israel

Feb 10, 2021 8 min read R

Automatic Rendering of a Plot with GitHub Actions

a light introduction to GitHub Actions for automating a plot of frequently used R packages.

Jan 3, 2021 16 min read R, GitHub

My year in R

Looking back at my year of learning R

Oct 15, 2020 15 min read R

Survey categorical variables with KableExtra

Aestheticaly printing descriptive variables from your survey data

Sep 1, 2020 15 min read R

Defining uncertainty in the Israeli lottery

Exploring the probability of winning the lottery at and by a given trial with the Geometric distribution

Jul 9, 2020 17 min read R

Learning Tfidf with Political Theorists

Learning tf-idf through political theorists.

May 31, 2020 15 min read R

Talks

Learning GIS with ice-cream parlors

Jun 9, 2021 12:00 PM Zoom, Online

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Wrangling and Visualizing Data in R

Apr 14, 2020 1:00 PM Zoom, Online

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Projects

Israeli Elections Twitter-bot

Twitter bot setup on a Raspberry Pi running every 10 minutes