Category: R
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On Whether Y-axis Labels Are Always Necessary
The infamous @albertocairo blogged about a nice interactive piece on German company tax avoidance by @ProPublica. Here's a snapshot of their interactive…
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…
New #rstats Podcast - R World News
Keeping up with R-related news on Twitter, GitHub, CRAN & even R-Bloggers (et al) can be an all-encompassing task that may be fun, but doesn't always make it easy to get work done. There is so much going on in the R community that we…
Pining for the fjoRds & monitoring SSL/TLS certificate expiration in R with flexdashboard
Folks have probably noticed that #52Vis has stalled, as has most blogging, package & Twitter activity. I came down with a nasty bout of bronchitis after attending rOpenSci Unconf 16 (there were so many people hacking [the sick kind] up a…
(ggplot2) Exercising with (ggalt) dumbbells
I follow the most excellent Pew Research folks on Twitter to stay in tune with what's happening (statistically speaking) with the world. Today, they tweeted this excerpt from their 2015 Global Attitudes…
52Vis Week #3 - Waste Not, Want Not
The Wall Street Journal did a project piece a while back in the "Waste Lands: America's Forgotten Nuclear Legacy". They dug through Department of Energy and CDC data to provide an overview of the lingering residue of this toxic time in…
52 Vis Week #2 Wrap Up
I've been staring at this homeless data set for a few weeks now since I'm using it both here and in the data science class I'm teaching. It's been one of the most mindful data sets I've worked with in a while. Even when reduced to pure…
52 Vis Week 1 Winners!
The response to 52Vis has exceeded expectations and there have been great entries for both weeks. It's time to award some…
Beating lollipops into dumbbells
Shortly after I added lollipop charts to ggalt I had a few requests for a dumbbell geom . It wasn't difficult to do modify the underlying lollipop Geom s to make a geomdumbbell() . Here it is in…
Clandestine DNS lookups with gdns
Google recently announced their DNS-over-HTTPS API, which "enhances privacy and security between a client and a recursive resolver, and complements DNSSEC to provide end-to-end authenticated DNS lookups". The REST API they provided was…