Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) & Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) tweeted about the Guardian Word Count service/archive site, lamenting the lack of visualizations:
Want to know num of words written in each day’s Guardian paper by section + approx reading time? http://t.co/wP4W1EzUsx via @bengoldacre
— Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) March 15, 2014
This gave me a chance to bust out another [Shiny](http://www.rstudio.com/shiny/) app over on our [Data Driven Security](http://datadrivensecurity.info) [shiny server](http://shiny.dds.ec/guardian-words/):
I used my trusty “`Google-Drive-spreadsheet-IMPORTHTML-to-CSV`” workflow (you can access the automagically updated data [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10CZhMhpFxTPWcLauam-ydKeFrdNgHEIehKznVMHFRM0/pubhtml)) to make the CSV that updates daily on the site and is referenced by the Shiny/R code.
The code has been [gist-ified](https://gist.github.com/hrbrmstr/9570488.js), and I’ll be re-visiting it to refactor the `data.frame` creation bits and add some more charts as the data set gets larger.
(Don’t forget to take a peek at our new book, [Data-Driven Security](http://bit.ly/ddsec)!)
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