Why I moved my personal blog from Wordpress to Hugo

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.

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Visualize and analyse IMDB ratings with R (part 2)

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.

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Visualize and analyse IMDB ratings with R

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

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:

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Meet the digital me | Martijn van Vreeden

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.

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