Over the past few weeks, I had been noticing that some posts in the R-bloggers feed were getting truncated in Feedly. I don’t remember when I noticed that since I usually click through immediately from the headline entry to the R-bloggers page vs read in Feedly since ultimately I want to get to the author’s… Continue reading
Sentiment Analysis of “A Christmas Carol”
Our family has been reading, listening to and watching “A Christmas Carol” for just abt 30 years now. I got it into my crazy noggin to perform a sentiment analysis on it the other day and tweeted out the results, but a large chunk of the R community is not on Twitter and it would… Continue reading
voteogram Is Now On CRAN
Earlier this year, I made a package that riffed off of ProPublica’s really neat voting cartograms (maps) for the U.S. House and Senate. You can see one for disaster relief spending in the House and one for the ACA “Skinny Repeal” in the Senate. We can replicate both here with the voteogram package (minus the… Continue reading
“Black”/”Cyber” Tips (a.k.a. How the hrbrgrinch ruined Christmas shopping)
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply globally. Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Cyber November / Holiday ?hopping is upon us. You’re going to buy stuff. You’re going to use digital transactions to do so. Here are some tips in a semi-coherent order: Sign up for… Continue reading
For Victoria & Kyle
(one more time: sub to the #rstats feed if you’re only on the blog for #rstats/datasci items) Daughter #2 got married to a wonderful chap yesterday. I wanted to preserve the text of my speech and blessing for them here. I know it’s on their wedding video but I’d like to archive it into the… Continue reading
Statebins Reimagined
A long time ago, in a github repo far, far away there lived a tiny package that made it possible to create equal area, square U.S. state cartograms in R dubbed statebins?. Three years have come and gone and — truth be told — I’ve never been happy with that package. It never felt “right”… Continue reading
New IBM Plex Sans Support in hrbrthemes + Automating Axis Text Justification
IBM has a new set of corporate typefaces — dubbed “Plex” — and has released them with a generous open license. IBM Plex Sans is not too shabby: (that image was grifted from a Font Squirrel preview page) The digit glyphs are especially nice for charts and the font iself is just different enough from… Continue reading
Twitter Outer Limits : Seeing How Far Have Folks Fallen Down The Slippery Slope to “280” with rtweet
By now, virtually every major media outlet has covered the “280 Apocalypse”™. For those still not “in the know”, Twitter recently moved the tweet character cap to 280 after a “successful” beta test (some of us have different ideas of what “success” looks like). I had been on a hiatus from the platform for a… Continue reading