SW10 digs deep
The property market in London SW10 is weak. But planning applications are in the ascendency. Is this how home owners are adding space? The post SW10 digs deep appeared first...continue reading.
Category: Visualisation
Anscombe’s Quartet: 1980’s Edition
In this post, I’ll describe a fun visualization of Anscombe’s quartet I whipped up recently.If you aren’t familiar with Anscombe’s quartet, here’s a brief description from its Wikipedia entry: “Anscombe’s...continue reading.
Make your own color palettes with paletti
Last week I blogged about the dutchmasters color palettes package, which was inspired by the wonderful ochRe package. As mentioned I shamelessly copied the package. I replaced the list with...continue reading.
Surprising stories hide in seemingly mundane data
Mapping geospatial data using the leaflet package in R, and integrating the resultant interactive map into a WordPress blog post. The post Surprising stories hide in seemingly mundane data appeared...continue reading.
9th MilanoR Meeting – Dataviz with R | Photos and presentations!
Hello R-users, On November 20th we had the pleasure to host the 9th MilanoR meeting in Mikamai! Lots of you participated with passion and enthusiasm and we’re so glad of...continue reading.
Color palettes derived from the Dutch masters
Among tulip fields, canals and sampling cheese, the museums of the Netherlands are one of its biggest tourist attractions. And for very good reasons! During the seventeenth century, known as...continue reading.
House sales in London SW10 take a few punches
SW10 house prices have taken some heavy punches in recent years, e.g. from the Financial Crisis. Is there a case for a more gently-graduated stamp duty? The post House sales...continue reading.
Assessing Global Health, One ???? at a Time
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website is a treasure trove of data. On a semi-regular basis, the institute publishes data visualizations using the daily freely available on the...continue reading.
Assessing Global Health, One ? at a Time
The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation website is a treasure trove of data. On a semi-regular basis, the institute publishes data visualizations using the daily freely available on the...continue reading.
Substitute levels in a factor or character vector
I’ve been using the ggplot2 package a lot recently. When creating a legend or tick marks on the axes, ggplot2 uses the levels of a character or factor vector. Most...continue reading.
The Irish Property Price Register – Geocoded to Small Areas
In this post, geocoded data for all property price sales in Ireland from 2012-2017 is available. Data is sourced on the Irish Property Price Register and geocoded using the Google...continue reading.
Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model based on Sales Funnel with R
We will review another fascinating approach that marries heuristic and probabilistic methods. We will link marketing channels with a probability of a customer passing through each step of a Sales...continue reading.
Marketing Multi-Channel Attribution model based on Sales Funnel with R
We will review another fascinating approach that marries heuristic and probabilistic methods. We will link marketing channels with a probability of a customer passing through each step of a Sales...continue reading.
Mining USPTO full text patent data – An exploratory analysis of machine learning and AI related patents granted in 2017 so far
The United States Patent and Trademark office (USPTO) provides immense amounts of data (the data I used are in the form of XML files). After coming across these datasets, I...continue reading.
Exploratory Data Analysis of Tropical Storms in R
Exploratory Data Analysis of Tropical Storms in R The disastrous impact of recent hurricanes, Harvey and Irma, generated a large influx of data within the online community. I was curious...continue reading.
How Pets Get Admitted and Later Leave Dallas Animal Shelters
Thanks to Dallas OpenData anyone has access to the city animal shelter records. If you lost or found a pet it could be that he or she spent some time in a shelter...continue reading.
US Immigration Enforcement – Part 1
Trend of US Immigration Enforcement In the coming months I’ll be digging into the immigration enforcement data posted on data.world. I encourage anyone to take this data and either add...continue reading.
Google Vision API in R – RoogleVision
Using the Google Vision API in R Utilizing RoogleVision After doing my post last month on OpenCV and face detection, I started looking into other algorithms used for pattern detection...continue reading.
The Role of Small Data and Vacation Recap Example
Wikipedia defines small data ‘small’ enough for human comprehension but then it goes further by qualifying data in a volume and format that makes it accessible, informative and actionable. I...continue reading.
