Looking at Fertility in R
Fertility is something people don’t typically discuss openly in the US, which isn’t a surprise because it is an incredibly personal topic. In fact, it’s really difficult to even write...continue reading.
Category: ggplot2
R from the turn of the century
Last week I spent some time reminiscing about my PhD and looking through some old R code. This trip down memory lane led to some of my old R scripts...continue reading.
Tweetable Mathematical Art With R
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.
Animating the Premier League using gganimate
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.
How to make a scatter plot in R
The scatter plot … It’s so common that almost everyone knows how to make one in one way or another. You see them in business, academia, media, news. Students use...continue reading.
Styling ggplot2 Graphics
Styling ggplot2 graphics In my previous post, we demonstrated that contrary to popular opinion, it is possible to generate attractive looking plots using just base graphics. Although we did confess,...continue reading.
How Do We Draw a Line?
She dreams in colour, she dreams in red, can’t find a better man (Better Man, Pearl Jam) Today I bring another experiment based on The Quick Draw! Data from Google, one of...continue reading.
But can ravens forecast?
Why forecast sales? Humans have the magical ability to plan for future events, for future gain. It’s not quite a uniquely human trait. Because apparently ravens can match a 4-year-old. An...continue reading.
Exploring The Quick, Draw! Dataset With R: The Mona Lisa
All that noise, and all that sound, all those places I have found (Speed of Sound, Coldplay) Some days ago, my friend Jorge showed me one of the coolest datasets...continue reading.
Spreadsheet Data Manipulation in R
Today I decided to create a new repository on GitHub where I am sharing code to do spreadsheet data manipulation in R.The first version of the repository and R script...continue reading.
Sentiment Use Across the Course of Pitchfork Music Reviews: A Tidy Text Analysis with R
In this post, we’ll return to the Kaggle data containing information on Pitchfork music reviews. In a previous post, I used this dataset to cluster music genres. In the current...continue reading.
Coloring Sudokus
Someday you will find me caught beneath the landslide (Champagne Supernova, Oasis) I recently read a book called Snowflake Seashell Star: Colouring Adventures in Numberland by Alex Bellos and Edmund Harris...continue reading.
An East-West less divided?
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.
Pencil Scribbles
Con las bombas que tiran los fanfarrones, se hacen las gaditanas tirabuzones (Palma y corona, Carmen Linares) This time I draw Franky again using an algorithm to solve the Travelling...continue reading.
The Travelling Salesman Portrait
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road (Stephen Hawking) Imagine a salesman...continue reading.
Ridgelines in bayesplot 1.5.0
It’s getting faster. Moving faster now. It’s getting out of handcontinue reading.
Digital Marketplace. Six months later.
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.
Data Visualization Website with Shiny
My second Shiny app is dedicated to data visualization.Here users can simply upload any csv or txt file and create several plots:Histograms (with option for faceting)Barchart (with error bars, and...continue reading.
ggplot2: How Geoms & Aesthetics ≈ Whipped Cream
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.
