Despite being a full-on denizen of all things digital I receive a fair number of dead-tree print magazines as there’s nothing quite like seeing an amazing, large, full-color print data-driven visualization up close and personal. I also like supporting data journalism through the subscriptions since without cash we will only have insane, extreme left/right-wing perspectives… Continue reading
The {waffle} package got some 💙 this week and now has a substantially improved geom_waffle() along with a brand new sibling function geom_pictogram() which has all the powerful new features of geom_waffle() but lets you use Font Awesome 5 brand and solid glyphs to make isotype pictograms. A major new feature is that stat_waffle() (which… Continue reading
The first U.S. Democratic debates of the 2020 election season were held over two nights this past week due to the daft number of candidates running for POTUS. The spiffy @NYTgraphics folks took the tallies of time spent blathering by each speaker/topic and made rounded rectangle segmented bar charts ordered by the time the blathering… Continue reading
The r-project.org domain had some temporary technical difficulties this week (2019-29) that made reaching R-related resources problematic for a bunch of folks for a period of time. Incidents like this underscore the need for regional and network diversity when it comes to ensuring the availability of DNS services. That is, it does no good if… Continue reading
Despite being on holiday I’m getting in a bit of non-work R coding since the fam has a greater ability to sleep late than I do. Apart from other things I’ve been working on a PR into {lutz}, a package by @andyteucher that turns lat/lng pairs into timezone strings. The package is super neat and… Continue reading
I’ve become a big fan of the {logspline} package over the past ~6 months and decided to wrap up a manual ggplot2 plotting process (well, it was at least in an RStudio snippet) into a small {ggplot2} Stat to make it easier to visualize various components of the fitted model. If you’re new to logspline… Continue reading
I mentioned EtherCalc in a previous post and managed to scrounge some time to put together a fledgling {ethercalc} package (it’s also on GitLab, SourceHut, Bitbucket and GitUgh, just sub out the appropriate URL prefix). I’m creating a package-specific Docker image (there are a couple out there but I’m not supporting their use with the… Continue reading
This morning, @kairyssdal tweeted out the following graphic from @axios: Confusing, but interesting. Data shows we're a nation of news consumption hypocrites – Axios https://t.co/O0lPSc4OV3 — Kai Ryssdal (@kairyssdal) June 11, 2019 If you’re doing the right thing and blocking evil social media javascript you can find the Axios story here and the graphic below:… Continue reading