Adstock is the theoretical measure of the cumulative effect of all this advertising, at any given moment. And we would expect it to gradually diminish over time, and thus we should be able to model it according to some mathematical formula

A short blog post on using Prophet for timeseries modeling

Just a quick blog post about Quarto, and some useful features.

Research Question: Are the political alignment and CDC Social Vulnerability Index (SVI) scores of U.S. counties predictive of COVID-19 vaccination levels? --- The prevalence and intractability of COVID-19 'vaccine hesitancy' over the past 18 months has been deeply alarming, with resistance and misinformation around public health fanned by political figures, media outlets and social media - especially to vulnerable populations in the United States.

Transformations of 3 untidy/wide datasets from various sources.

R Character Manipulation and Date Processing

FiveThirtyEight publishes a daily tracker measuring public approval of the President’s handling of the COVID-19 pandemic. Their approach aggregates all available, scientifically-valid surveys from the field, and weights the results from each pollster using a custom rating formula that factors in historical accuracy, adherence to industry best practices, and reliance on landline responses.