Hospital Infection Scores – R Shiny App
Medicare Data – R Shiny App About two weeks ago I created an extremely rough version of an R Shiny Application surrounding Medicare data. Right after publishing the blog post,...continue reading.
Category: ggplot2
Subplots in maps with ggplot2
Following the surprising success of my latest post, I decided to show yet another use case of the handy annotation_custom(). Here I will show how to add small graphical information...continue reading.
Arranging subplots with ggplot2
For my recently published paper, I produced not-so-standard figures that show the two step decomposition used in the analysis. Have a look: Figure 3 from my paper (PDF) Actually, ggplot2...continue reading.
R-Lab #3: A Shiny for the Milano Municipality Budget Data | Milan, May 27th
We are ready for the third R-Lab, the monthly appointment where we co-work together on a real data science problem using R. This time the R-Lab is promoted by nothing...continue reading.
Building a Medicare Shiny App – Part 1
Hello R community. if you’re up for some fun tinkering with a Shiny App please join me on a new project. I would love to see some collaboration in designing...continue reading.
Rent Prices and TrelliscopeJS
Rent Prices are Soaring in Most of Colorado Call it gentrification, supply-and-demand, call it whatever you’d like… the fact is, rent prices have gone up in Colorado in the last...continue reading.
Hacking maps with ggplot2
This is a very short post on mapping with ggplot2. Quite often, mapping some data, we do not need to follow scrupulously the formal requirements to geographical maps – the...continue reading.
Data Visualization – Part 3
What Type of Data Visualization Do You Choose (if any)? Determining whether or not you need a visualization is step one. While it seems silly, this is probably something everyone...continue reading.
Data Visualization – Part 2
A Quick Overview of the ggplot2 Package in R While it will be important to focus on theory, I want to explain the ggplot2 package because I will be using...continue reading.
Data Visualization – Part 1
Introduction to Data Visualization – Theory, R & ggplot2 The topic of data visualization is very popular in the data science community. The market size for visualization products is valued...continue reading.
Random Forest Classification of Mushrooms
There is a plethora of classification algorithms available to people who have a bit of coding experience and a set of data. A common machine learning method is the random...continue reading.
City of Fort Collins Spending Analysis
Stoltzmaniac is going local in today’s blog post! I dug into the City of Fort Collins open data and published my findings below. The data was surprisingly clean and laid...continue reading.
Christmas Tree with ggplot
rm(list = ls()) library(ggplot2) # create data x <- c(8,7,6,7,6,5,6,5,4,5,4,3,4,3,2,3,2,1,0.5,0.1) dat1 <- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = x) dat2 <- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = -x) dat1$xvar <- dat2$xvar <-...continue reading.
Christmas Tree with ggplot
rm(list = ls()) library(ggplot2) # create data x <- c(8,7,6,7,6,5,6,5,4,5,4,3,4,3,2,3,2,1,0.5,0.1) dat1 <- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = x) dat2 <- data.frame(x1 = 1:length(x), x2 = -x) dat1$xvar <- dat2$xvar <-...continue reading.
Ordering Categories within ggplot2 Facets
I saw Simon Jackson’s recent blog post regarding ordering categories within facets. He proposed a way of dealing with the problem of ordering variables shared across facets within facets. This...continue reading.
Seinfeld Characters – A Post About Nothing
This post is dedicated to my mother – Seinfeld’s greatest fan. Seinfeld is a classic TV sitcom. It featured four main characters surrounded by relatively normal, everyday, run of the...continue reading.
Crime Analysis – Denver-Part 3
Marijuana, Alcohol, and Other Drugs Continuing our Exploration of the Data After identifying the sources of crime growth, it’s time to investigate specific crime rates. This blog post addresses drug...continue reading.
Crime Analysis – Denver-Part 1
Project Background As we all know, Colorado is considered one of the scariest places on earth. Denver, CO has had an enormous influx of people over the last decade and...continue reading.
mapmate 0.2.0
mapmate is under development and blog posts can become outdated quickly. Up to date mapmate documentation and tutorial examples can be found at the official mapmate Github pages. mapmate has...continue reading.
mapmate 0.1.0
mapmate has now been updating from version 0.0.2 to 0.1.0 on Github. The biggest addition is a number of plotting options for making different kinds of maps. The new tutorial...continue reading.
