Category: maine
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Maine 2025 Ballot Questions Redux
If you want to or do vote "yes" for question 1, you are not a real American, you are not a real Christian (if you profess to be one), you are not a decent human. You are at the very least a classist; you are also very likely a…
hrbrthemes 0.6.0 on CRAN + Other In-Development Package News
Version 0.6.0 of the hrbrthemes ? package should be hitting a CRAN mirror near you soon. Apart from some general documentation and code cleanup this release includes the dark theme folks have been seeing in blog posts and tweets over the…
Comparing 2017 Maine Lobster Landings To Historical Landings
Tis the season for finding out how well Maine fisherfolk did last year; specifically, Maine…
Making Static & Interactive Maps With ggvis (+ using ggvis maps w/shiny)
Even though it's still at version 0.4, the ggvis package has quite a bit of functionality and is highly useful for exploratory data analysis (EDA). I wanted to see how geographical visualizations would work under it, so I put together six…
Visualizing Historical & Most-likely First Snowfall Dates for U.S. Regions
The impending arrival of the first real snowfall of the year in my part of Maine got me curious about what the most likely "first snow" dates are for my region. The U.S. Historical Climatology Network (USHCN) maintains historical daily…
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…
One More Time…Mapping Maine Power Outages with D3
It started with a local R version and migrated to a Shiny version and is now in full D3 glory…
Mapping Power Outages In Maine With R
We had yet-another power outage this morning due to the weird weather patterns of the week and it was the final catalyst I needed to crank out some R code to map the affected…
Open Campgrounds In Maine During The Stupid Shutdown
Don't let the morons in Congress stop you from visiting our fair state during this beautiful, colorful autumn season. Below is a Google Maps view of known, open campgrounds that will let you experience the best our state has to offer this…