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Amit Grinson

Risk Data Analyst

Payoneer

Hi! I’m Amit Levinson; I love to explore, analyze and visualize data. I currently live with my wife, our baby boy and our dog Milo in Rehovot, Israel. My interests include Data analytics, Visualizations, Statistics and various langauges such as R, SQL & Python. 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, 2021

    Ben-Gurion University

  • BA in Sociology, Anthropology & Political Science, 2018

    Ben-Gurion University

Blog Posts

Text Manipulation & RegEx in a Data Analysis Flow (with examples in SQL vs Python/R)

Going over various cases of text operations in a data analysis flow, showing how to solve it with R/Python compared to SQL.
Aug 29, 2022 10 min read

Community visualization challenges and their educational inspiration (talk summary)

Summarizing the things I love about and learned from data visualization challenges as part of a talk I gave at the Israeli …
Jun 28, 2022 10 min read

R vs Python — Live Stream Analysis

Using both R and Python we answer various questions about the Dog of Zurich dataset. Try it yourself and get some hands-on data …
Jun 2, 2022 9 min read R

Reviewing an SQL interview question

Solving an SQL interview question using three different approaches.
Aug 31, 2021 17 min read

Distances to Golda Ice-Cream Locations in Israel

Exploring maps and distances to various Golda ice-cream locations throughout Israel
Feb 10, 2021 13 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
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Talks

The Joys of an unconventional Portfolio

Sep 14, 2022 4:00 PM College of Management Academic Studies
slides

Community visualization challenges and their educational inspiration

May 12, 2022 4:00 PM Shenkar
slides recording

Learning GIS with ice-cream parlors

Jun 9, 2021 12:00 PM Open Source in GIS, Online
slides code

Wrangling and Visualizing Data in R

Apr 14, 2020 1:00 PM Zoom, Online
slides code

Projects

Israeli Elections Twitter-bot

Twitter bot setup on a Raspberry Pi running every 10 minutes