I caught a re-tweet of this tweet by @harry_stevens: THREAD: I wrote a post on @observablehq about a map I made today. It shows a typical day in the life of a graphics journalist: You never know what problems you'll have to solve on deadline! https://t.co/yRhW1wbLxN #d3js #dataviz 1/7 pic.twitter.com/7N6mmK0nz3 — Harry Stevens (@Harry_Stevens) May… Continue reading
Political machinations are a tad insane in the U.S. these days & I regularly hit up @ProPublica & @GovTrack sites (& sub to the GovTrack e-mail updates) as I try to be an informed citizen, especially since I’ve got a Senator and Representative who seem to be in the sway of ?. I’ve always appreciated… Continue reading
This is another purrr-focused post but it’s also an homage to the nascent magick package (R interface to ImageMagick) by @opencpu. We’re starting to see/feel the impact of the increasing drought up here in southern Maine. I’ve used the data from the U.S. Drought Monitor before on the blog, but they also provide shapefiles and… Continue reading
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece [a while back](http://projects.wsj.com/waste-lands/) in the _”Waste Lands: America’s Forgotten Nuclear Legacy”_. They dug through [Department of Energy](http://www.lm.doe.gov/default.aspx?id=2602) and [CDC](http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ocas/ocasawe.html) data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in America’s past (somehow, I have to believe the fracking phenomena of our modern era… Continue reading
Folks who’ve been tracking this blog on R-bloggers probably remember [this post](https://rud.is/b/2014/11/16/moving-the-earth-well-alaska-hawaii-with-r/) where I showed how to create a composite U.S. map with an Albers projection (which is commonly referred to as AlbersUSA these days thanks to D3). I’m not sure why I didn’t think of this earlier, but you don’t _need_ to do those… Continue reading
My wife tricked me into a partial-weekend project to try to get all the primary/caucus results to-date on a map (the whole us). This is challenging since not all states use counties as boundaries for aggregate results. I’m still piecing together some shapefiles for the primary/caucus summation boundaries for a couple remaining states but I… Continue reading
I saw this post over at NatGeo over the weekend and felt compelled to replicate this: with ggplot2. Three shapefiles later and we have it close enough to toss into a post (and I really don’t believe the continent names are necessary). library(rgdal) library(ggplot2) library(ggthemes) library(ggalt) # devtools::install_github(“hrbrmstr/ggalt”) # grab these from http://rud.is/dl/quakefiles.tgz world <-… Continue reading
Avast, me hearties! It’s time four t’ annual International Talk Like a Pirate Day #rstats post! (OK, I won’t make you suffer continuous pirate-speak for the entire post) I tried to be a bit more practical this year and have two treasuRe chests for you to (hopefully) enjoy. A Package Full o’ Pirates I’ve covered… Continue reading