Category: DataViz
Everything filed under DataViz.
R version of "An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables:"
Rick Wicklin (@RickWicklin) made a recent post to the SAS blog on An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables. It's a very succinct tutorial on both the power of boxplots and how to make them in SAS (of…
Mapping the March 2014 California Earthquake with ggmap
I had no intention to blog this, but @jayjacobs convinced me otherwise. I was curious about the recent (end of March, 2014) California earthquake "storm" and did a quick plot for "fun" and personal use using…
Guardian Words: Visualized
Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) & Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) tweeted about the Guardian Word Count service/archive site, lamenting the lack of…
Using Twitter as a Data Source For Monitoring Password Dumps
I shot a quick post over at the Data Driven Security blog explaining how to separate Twitter data gathering from R code via the Ruby t (github repo) command. Using t frees R code from having to be a Twitter processor and lets the analyst…
One More (Yet-another?) Olympic Medal Live-tracking Shiny App
The code for the app is in this gist. It is unsurprisingly just like some spiffy other code you've seen apart from my aesthetic choices (Sochi blue! lines+dots! and, current rankings next to country…
Data Driven Security Roundup: betaPERT, Shiny, Honeypots, Passwords & Reproducible Research
Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)—my co-author of the soon-to-be-released book Data-Driven Security—& I have been hard at work over at the book's sister-blog cranking out code to help security domain experts delve into the dark art of data…
Data-Driven Security (The Book) Update #ShamelessSelfPromotion
Here's the list of links to e-tailers (man, I hate that term) who have it available for the various e-readers out…
Lies, Damn Lies, "Data Journalism" and Charts That Don't Start at 0
This tweet by @moorehn (who usually is a superb economic journalist) really bugged…
Announcing The Launch Of The Data Driven Security [Blog|Podcast]
While you're waiting for the book by @jayjacobs & @hrbrmstr to hit the shelves, why not head on over to the inaugural post of the Data Driven Security Blog & give a listen to the first episode of the Data Driven Security…
Points, Polygons and Power Outages
Most of my free coding time has been spent tweaking a D3-based live power outage tracker for Central Maine Power customers (there's also a woefully less-featured Shiny app for it, too). There is some R associated with the D3 vis, but it's…