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Despite being on holiday I’m getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things...continue reading.
Despite being on holiday I’m getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things...continue reading.
I’ve become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in...continue reading.
I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it’s also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub...continue reading.
This morning, @kairyssdal tweeted out the following graphic from @axios: Confusing, but interesting. Data shows we’re a nation of news consumption hypocrites – Axios https://t.co/O0lPSc4OV3 — Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) June...continue reading.
I did another twitter thread on the aforeblogged MowerPlus database as I explored the tables after a second mow to determine what identified a unique mowing “session” (using John Deere’s...continue reading.
I was pretty brutal to Apple earlier this week in a Twitter thread that I tried to craft so it occurred in-line with the WWDC live stream (which might be...continue reading.
A user of the {ggalt} package recently posted a question about how to add points to a geom_dumbbell() plot. For now, this is not something you can do with geom_dumbbell()...continue reading.
In a recent previous post I brazenly talked over the “hard parts” of how I got to the target SQLite file that houses “mowing history” for what has become my...continue reading.
For the first time ever we got a new riding mower this weekend. We’ve always haggled to keep the one sellers were using with any given house we’ve purchased over...continue reading.
The Feedly category I have setup for git-stalking has indicated a fairly massive interest in Joshua Levy’s The Art of the Command Line. What is “The Art of the Command...continue reading.
A fair bit of time ago the {gdns} package made its way to CRAN to give R users the ability to use Google’s (at that time) nascent support for DNS...continue reading.
I’ve talked about the retailpocalypse before and this morning I was greeted with the news about Dressbarn closing all 650 stores as I fired up a browser. I tweeted some...continue reading.
I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the life...continue reading.
I’m using GitUgh links here b/c the issue was submitted there. Those not wishing to be surveilled by Microsoft can find the macOS QuickLook plugin project and {rdatainfo} project in...continue reading.
I’ve mentioned {htmlunit} in passing before, but did not put any code in the blog post. Since I just updated {htmlunitjars} to the latest and greatest version, now might be...continue reading.
Like more posts than I care to admit, this one starts innocently enough with a tweet by @gshotwell: Is there a reference document somewhere of which dplyr commands work on...continue reading.
Researching “the internet” (i.e. $DAYJOB) means having to deal with a ton of “unique” (I’m being kind) data formats. This is ultimately a tale of how I performed full-text searches...continue reading.
@ted_dunning recently updated the t-Digest algorithm he created back in 2013. What is this “t-digest”? Fundamentally, it is a probabilistic data structure for estimating any percentile of distributed/streaming data. Ted...continue reading.
I saw a second post on turning htmlwidgets into interactive Twitter Player cards and felt somewhat compelled to make creating said entities a bit easier so posited the following: Wld...continue reading.
There’s been alot of talk about “dependencies” in the R universe of late. This is not really a post about that but more of a “really, don’t do this” if...continue reading.