2023-09-10 UPDATE: Art Steinmetz took me up on the Shiny challenge (at the end of the post) and did a fantastic job! 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… Continue reading
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 Protocol. Folks are using Bluesky much the same way as any online forum/chat. One of those ways is to share URLs to content. For the moment, it is possible to eavesdrop… Continue reading
Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the day. Since I’ve been moving back and forth between R and Observable (and JavaScript in general), I decided to recreate that post in OJS Plot,… Continue reading
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 is full support for the Observable runtime. These are used in {ojs}… Continue reading
Rather than continue to generate daily images with R, I threw together an Observable notebook that takes advantage of the CDC COVID-19 county data datasette (provided by Simon Willison) and the new {Plot} library (by the @ObservableHQ team) that enables users to interactively see the daily county resident vaccination “series complete” percentage distribution. The full… Continue reading