Data visualisation pitfalls: how to avoid barbarplots ?
You did an experiment or a survey, or you collected data, and you are ready to analyse them. But what is the first step? Everyone will tell you that you...continue reading.
You did an experiment or a survey, or you collected data, and you are ready to analyse them. But what is the first step? Everyone will tell you that you...continue reading.
Sin ese peso ya no hay gravedad Sin gravedad ya no hay anzuelo (Mira cómo vuelo, Miss Caffeina) I love messing around with R to generate mathematical patterns. I always...continue reading.
Ever wonder what an evolving gif of each premier league team’s goal difference vs points would look like made in R? Look no further! Most of this is going to...continue reading.
A blogpost inspired by a tweet and a YouTube video. ‘Luminance-gradient-dependent lightness illusion’ In the last days, I’ve stumbled upon this tweet: A demo of lightness perception pic.twitter.com/BSVpgcuIw1 — Akiyoshi...continue reading.
Let’s welcome the viridis palette into the new version of {ggplot2}! Viri-what ? viridis is one of the favorite color palettes of one of the member of the team (guesswho)....continue reading.
Recently, I attended a presentation where the following graph was shown illustrating the response to stimulation with Thalidomide among a cohort of HIV-1 patients. The biomarker used to measure the...continue reading.
If you build statistical or machine learning models, the recipes package can be useful for data preparation. A recipe object is a container that holds all the steps that should...continue reading.
With tensions heightened recently at the United Nations, one might wonder whether we’ve drawn closer, or farther apart, over the decades since the UN was established in 1945. We’ll see...continue reading.
Big news, from the 13th till the 27th June Jumping Rivers will be running 6 courses on R in Hamburg!!. It should be noted that each course runs for one...continue reading.
The Main Competition The Secondary Competition What next? The results of the eRum competition are in! Before we announce the winners we would like to thank everyone who entered. It...continue reading.
Six months ago we considered the question: Is the Government realising its ambition for SMEs on G-Cloud? This article reviews progress six months later, additionally considering the Digital Outcomes &...continue reading.
Set-up Getting the tweets Are world leaders actually bots? Set-up Given that I do quite like twitter, I thought it would be a good idea to right about R’s interface...continue reading.
In this post I have a few goals: 1. Become (re-)familiar with available geoms 2. Become (re-)familiar with aesthetic mappings in geoms (stroke who knew?) 3. Answer these questions: How...continue reading.
Last week I did an analysis of gold diggers at the Olympics. Here I take you along how I scraped the data from wikepedia and subsequently used the tools of...continue reading.
In the digital age of today, data comes in many forms. Many of the more common file types like CSV, XLSX, and plain text (TXT) are easy to access and...continue reading.
There’s a pay-off from an exploration of multiple supervised machine learning models. We’ll explore five approaches whilst predicting criminal goings-on in London. The post Criminal goings-on in a random forest...continue reading.
During a very quick tour of Edinburgh (and in particular some distilleries), Dave Robinson (Tidytext fame), was able to drop by the Edinburgh R meet-up group to give a very...continue reading.
Data science tells a story through visualisation. Both story and visualisation rely on a good plot. And an abundance of those has evolved over time. Many have their own dedicated...continue reading.
Project Objective Untappd has some usage restrictions for their API, namely not allowing any exploration for analytics or data mining use cases, so I’m going to explore tweets of beer...continue reading.
Project Objective Untappd has some usage restrictions for their API, namely not allowing any exploration for analytics or data mining use cases, so I’m going to explore tweets of beer...continue reading.