Category: R
Everything filed under R.
One More (Yet-another?) Olympic Medal Live-tracking Shiny App
The code for the app is in this gist. It is unsurprisingly just like some spiffy other code you've seen apart from my aesthetic choices (Sochi blue! lines+dots! and, current rankings next to country…
Live Google Spreadsheet For Keeping Track Of Sochi Medals
The "medals" R post by TRInker and re-blogged by Revolutions were both spiffy and a live example why there's no point in not publishing raw…
Data Driven Security Roundup: betaPERT, Shiny, Honeypots, Passwords & Reproducible Research
Jay Jacobs (@jayjacobs)—my co-author of the soon-to-be-released book Data-Driven Security—& I have been hard at work over at the book's sister-blog cranking out code to help security domain experts delve into the dark art of data…
Lies, Damn Lies, "Data Journalism" and Charts That Don't Start at 0
This tweet by @moorehn (who usually is a superb economic journalist) really bugged…
Change The Default "Shell..." Action In RStudio for OS X
RStudio is my R development environment of choice and I work primarily on/in Mac OS X. While it's great that Apple provides a built-in Terminal application, I prefer to use iTerm 2 when I need to do work at a shell. The fine folks at…
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…
Mapping Power Outages in Maine Dynamically with Shiny/R
I decided to forego the D3 map mentioned in the previous post in favor of a Shiny one since I had 90% of the mapping code…
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…
Alternative to Grouped Bar Charts in R
and, I obliged shortly thereafter, but figured I'd toss a post up on the blog before heading to…
Visualizing "ObamaCare-related" Job Cuts
The spreadsheet is organized by date and lists each state where the jobs were impacted along with the employer , employer type (public/private), reason and number of jobs impacted (if available). They also have links to news stories…