Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot
One of the game-changing features of ggplot2 was the ease with which one can explore the dimensions of the data using small multiples.1 There is a small trick that I...continue reading.
Category: ggplot2
How to create a beautiful map with R and geom_sf [part 2]
Last week in Mapping Texas Ports with R [part 1], we created a simple map of Texas ports with R, ggplot2, and geom_sf. That map was really just a “rough...continue reading.
Mapping Texas ports with R [part 1]
In the last few months since covid-19 has struck, everyone is suddenly talking about supply chains. Just a few months ago, this was sort of a “boring” topic, only discussed...continue reading.
Why I still love R
One of the most common questions I get from data science students is “should I learn R or Python?” In the last year or so, many of the blog posts...continue reading.
R data analysis, covid19: finding successful countries
In this blog post, we’ll create a data visualization to analyze covid19 data and visualize successful vs. unsuccessful countries. You’ll see exactly what I mean by that in a minute....continue reading.
R covid19 analysis, part5: dealing with data issues
Ok … welcome back to this covid19 data analysis series with R. In this series, we’re analyzing covid19 data with the R programming language. So far in this series, we’ve...continue reading.
R Data Visualization: covid-19, part 4
Welcome back. Hopefully you’ve been following along with our R data analysis series. This tutorial is part of a series of tutorials analyzing covid-19 data with R. So far in...continue reading.
Saving R Graphics across OSs
R is known for it’s amazing graphics. Not only ggplot2, but also plotly, and the other dozens of packages at the graphics task view. There seems to be a graph...continue reading.
Watercolors
Moça do corpo douradoDo Sol de IpanemaO seu balançadoÉ mais que um poema(Garota de Ipanema, João Gilberto) Sometimes I think about the reasons why I spend so many time doing...continue reading.
Monsters
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin’Our very street todayBurns like a red coal carpetMad bull lost its way(Gimme Shelter, The Rolling Stones) After following this easy tutorial, you will be...continue reading.
A Year in Flow
Revisiting the river flow profile plot from an earlier post, the video below loops each day’s flow profile for the Delaware River in 2019. Data is from USGS gages processed...continue reading.
Reaction Diffusion
Sin patria ni banderas, ahora vivo a mi manera; y es que me siento extranjero fuera de tus agujeros (Tercer movimiento: Lo de dentro, Extremoduro) The technique I experimented with...continue reading.
Advent of Code 2019 challenge with R
I have decided to tackle this year’s Advent Of Code using R (more or less). I know there are more preferred languages, such as Python, C#, Java, JavaScript, Go, Kotlin,...continue reading.
Another mixed effects model visualization
Creating a diagram to illustrate information borrowing (partial pooling)continue reading.
Hangman game with R
Hangman is a classic word game in which you need to need to guess as many possible letters in word, so you can guess the word, before running out of...continue reading.
The Chaos Game: an experiment about fractals, recursivity and creative coding
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty (Bertrand Russell) You have a pentagon defined by its five vertex. Now, follow these steps: Step 0: take a point...continue reading.
Colonizing Franky
Y otra vez me arranco despacito, al sentir que nada necesito (Locura transitoria, Extremoduro) One of my favorite sites in the Internet is algorithmic botany . It’s always a source...continue reading.
Clustering Frankenstein
Necesito para estar sentado, un arbolito en este descampado (Desarraigo, Extremoduro) From time to time I come back to experiment with this stunning photograph of Boris Karloff as Frankenstein’s monster....continue reading.
Rhombuses
For a lonely soul, you’re having such a nice time (Nothing in my way, Keane) In my previous post, I created the P2 Penrose tessellation according to the instructions of...continue reading.
