Category: Javascript
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Foliage 2023
The days are getting shorter and when we were visiting Down East Maine the other week, there was just a hint of some trees starting to change up their leaf palettes. It was a solid reminder to re-up my ~annual “foliage” plotting that I…
Keeping Track Of URLs Shared On Bluesky
While the future of Bluesky is nowhere near certain, it is most certainly growing. It's also the largest community of users for the AT…
WebR WASM R Package Load/Library Benchmarking Rabbit Hole
I have a post coming on using base and {ggplot2} plots in VanillaJS WebR, but after posting some bits on social media regarding how slow {ggplot2} is to deal with, I had some "performance"-related inquiries, which led me down a rabbit hole…
Fall Foliage: JavaScript/OJS Edition
I've been (mostly) keeping up with annual updates for my R/{sf} U.S. foliage post which you can find on GH . This year, we have Quarto , and it comes with so many batteries included that you'd think it was Christmas. One of those batteries…
Using the new Plot Javascript Exploratory Visualization Library Sans-Observable
The fine folks over at @ObservableHQ released a new javascript exploratory visualization library called Plot last week with great fanfare. It was primarily designed to be used in Observable notebooks and I quickly tested it out there (you…
Polyglot FizzBuzz in R (Plus: "Why Can't Johnny Code?")
I caught this post on the The Surprising Number Of Programmers Who Can’t Program from the Hacker News RSS feed. Said post links to another, classic post on the same subject and you should read both before…
R⁶ — General (Attys) Distributions
Matt @stiles is a spiffy data journalist at the @latimes and he posted an interesting chart on U.S. Attorneys General longevity (given that the current US AG is on thin…
Global Temperature Change in R & D3 (without the vertigo)
One of the original versions was static and was not nearly as popular, but—as you can see—this one went…
Create Vega-Lite specs & widgets with the vegalite package
Vega-Lite 1.0 was released this past week. I had been meaning to play with it for a while but I've been burned before by working with unstable APIs and was waiting for this to bake to a stable release. Thankfully, there were no new shows…
Doh! I Could Have Had Just Used V8!
An R user recently had the need to split a "full, human name" into component parts to retrieve first & last names. The full names could be anything from something simple like "David Regan" to more complex & diverse such as "John Smith…