Category: R
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Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post , it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don't get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the utility of an…
Seeing the (day)light with R
The arrival of the autumnal equinox foreshadows the reality of longer nights and shorter days here in the northeast US. We can both see that reality and distract ourselves from it at the same time by firing up RStudio (or your favorite…
Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
The BBC did a pretty good job live tracking the Scotland secession vote, but I really didn't like the color scheme they chose and decided to use the final tally site as the basis for another tutorial using the tools from the Hadleyverse…
R version of "An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables:"
Rick Wicklin (@RickWicklin) made a recent post to the SAS blog on An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables. It's a very succinct tutorial on both the power of boxplots and how to make them in SAS (of…
Rforecastio Package Update (1.1.0)
I've bumped up the version number of Rforecastio (github) to 1.1.0. The new features…
Moving From system() calls to Rcpp Interfaces
Over on the Data Driven Security Blog there's a post on how to use Rcpp to interface with an external library (in this case ldns for DNS lookups). It builds on another post which uses system() to make a call to dig to lookup DNS TXT…
Mapping the March 2014 California Earthquake with ggmap
I had no intention to blog this, but @jayjacobs convinced me otherwise. I was curious about the recent (end of March, 2014) California earthquake "storm" and did a quick plot for "fun" and personal use using…
Guardian Words: Visualized
Andy Kirk (@visualisingdata) & Lynn Cherny (@arnicas) tweeted about the Guardian Word Count service/archive site, lamenting the lack of…
Using Twitter as a Data Source For Monitoring Password Dumps
I shot a quick post over at the Data Driven Security blog explaining how to separate Twitter data gathering from R code via the Ruby t (github repo) command. Using t frees R code from having to be a Twitter processor and lets the analyst…