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NHL Team Rankings with Stattleship and Neo4j

This entry is intended to demonsrate how easy it is to use:

1. Stattleship’s API: http://playbook.stattleship.com/

2. the R package https://github.com/stattleship/stattleship-r

3. along with http://www.neo4j.org/ as a database,

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Build Star Wars models with your Lego collection

Summary

Since my childhood, the countless model building with Lego bricks are fascinating me. Lego are plastic construction toys consisting of interlocking bricks that are used to construct a wide variety of models. Usually, Lego are sold as a collection of different designed pieces and an instruction book that visually describe the sequential building steps of a miniature model.

I always had a great fun using bricks to build different models that you have to imagine based on the bricks available. But this liberty to imagine new models comes with a great frustration when important pieces are missing to build it.

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# Write R data.frame to a Tableau data extract file (.tde) by building and executing 
# a python script which utilizes the Tableau data extract API (a hack, yes).
#
# This, naturally, has a hard dependency on the TDE API, so is only available for 
# Windows and Linux systems (unfortunately)
#
# Devin Riley
# October, 2014

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import requests
import base64
import json
from simple_salesforce import Salesforce

userName = ''
password = ''
securityToken = ''
instance = ''

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# Calculate age at a given reference date
# Create an interval between the date of birth and the enrollment date; 
# intervals are specific to the two dates. Periods give the actual length
# of time between those dates, so convert to period and extract the year.

calc_age <- function(birthDate, refDate = Sys.Date()) {

    require(lubridate)