How to optimize the Youtube Shortcode for Hugo

The Youtube embed shortcode for Hugo allows you to embed Youtube videos in your Hugo pages. Which is a pretty neat feature they provide to you out-of-the-box. The shortcode allows you to add two additional parameters that can be managed from the standard settings:

• Unique Youtube video ID
• allowfullscreen (which you can set to “true”, which allows users to show the video in full screen mode)

However, there are a ton of additional parameters you can include to customize your Youtube video embed. You can find a full list of all the embed parameters on the Youtube developers website.

Why I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Hugo

It was one of those rare moments in my freelance career when I had some extra time on my hands. Eager to work on a website and tinker with some code. I was looking at my personal website (which you’re on right now). It was still built on Wordpress, with a basic theme and some useful features. In reality, I wasn’t using much of the power that Wordpress holds. I didn’t use many of the extensions and plugins available and hardly any of the other features that were running on my website. Despite me not using the features, the website was pretty heavy on css and javascript libraries. Just a waste of bandwith and performance.

Collecting Spotify data with R

Spotify has made its data very accessible to endusers to play with. Their API provides you with a plethora of options to get to their data, which is a ton of fun to analyse.

To get started, you wil need to R packages to access the data and process it afterwards.

Visualising Google Analytics internal search data with R

It’s a well-known fact that for many content-rich websites like e-commerce website the internal search engine is one of the most important features to navigate the website to find the right product. Google Analytics has created several standard reports to show you how visitors use your internal search engine and how this impacts your KPI’s. These reports can be quite useful, but they may also limit your way of analysis. The basic reports limit the ways you can look at the data.

Analyse Google Location data with R

Google is happily tracking my every move, thanks to my Android Samsung phone and poor privacy setting skills. Google collects my data about my movement through their location tracker. A lot of data!

In this blog I will explore the location data Google has collected about me since 2016.

I will be using some R packages to structure the data properly and other packages to build plots:

Visualize and analyse IMDB ratings with R (part 2)

This post is part of a series of posts to analyse the digital me.

In my previous post about analysing IMDB ratings in this series I explored some of the data I collected about my movie preferences, also compared to the ratings other IMDB raters.

In this post I will dig a little deeper to learn more about my own personal movie preferences.

Visualize and analyse IMDB ratings with R

In my previous post in this series I shared how I collect and store my personal ratings data from IMDB and enrich it with a few important variables about the movie.

In this post I will explore the data to learn about my movie preferences. I will be using some R packages to structure the data properly and other packages to build plots:

Getting my IMDB ratings with R and Rvest

I’m a big fan of IMDB and have been for many years. It is a fantastic website with a lot of information about movies, documentaries and tv-series. Besides fact-checking (“who was that guy playing in that one movie?”) it is also a place for me to collect all the ratings I have done on movies in the past few years. The star rating system is pretty effective to see if I already watched a certain movie and what I thought of it.

Meet the digital me

This is likely the most self-centered blogpost you will read today, maybe even this year. Because this post is all about me, the digital me.

Just like all people these days, I leave a digital footprint. I use apps, digital services and websites to share my experiences with others, keep people posted of what I do and compare what I do with all the stuff other people do.