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Animated US Hexbin Map of the Avian Flu Outbreak
The recent announcement of the start of egg rationing in the U.S. made me curious enough about the avian flu outbreak to try to dig into the numbers a bit. I finally stumbled upon a USDA site that had an embedded HTML table of flock…
A quick, incomplete comparison of ggplot2 & rbokeh plotting idioms
I set aside a small bit of time to give rbokeh a try and figured I'd share a small bit of code that shows how to make the "same" chart in both ggplot2 and…
Scraping jQuery DataTable Programmatic JSON with R
School of Data had a recent post how to copy "every item" from a multi-page list. While their post did provide a neat hack, their "words of warning" are definitely missing some items and the overall methodology can be improved upon with…
U.S. Drought Monitoring With Hexbin State Maps in R
On the news, today, of the early stages of drought hitting the U.S. northeast states I decided to springboard off of yesterday's post and show a more practical use of hexbin state maps than the built-in (and still purpose unknown to me)…
GeoJSON Hexagonal "Statebins" in R
There's been lots of buzz about "statebin" maps of late. A recent tweet by @andrewxhill referencing work by @dannydb pointed to a nice shapefile ( alternate link ) that ends up being a really great way to handle statebin maps (and I feel…
quotebox - An NPR-like Embedded Twitter Quote Generator
I'm an avid NPR listener also follow a number of their programs and people on Twitter. I really dig their \quotable\ tweets. Here's a sample of a recent…
New Fake Vulnerability Service - SVE
The SVE service is a fake new service solely put out there to facilitate some inane puzzle. You can reference SVE-2015-9999 via this URL and hopefully this will make it possible for google to get it back in their…
More Airline Crashes via the Hadleyverse
I saw a fly-by \#rstats\ mention of more airplane accident data on -- of all places -- LinkedIn (email) today which took me to a \GitHub repo\ by @philjette. It seems there's a \web site\ (run by what seems to be a single human) that…
A look at airline crashes in R with googlesheets, dplyr & ggplot2
Over on The DO Loop, @RickWicklin does a nice job visualizing the causes of airline crashes in SAS using a mosaic plot. More often than not, I find mosaic plots can be a bit difficult to grok, but Rick's use was spot on and I believe it…
Pre-CRAN waffle update - isotype pictograms
It seems Ruben C. Arslan had the waffle idea about the same time I did. Apart from some extra spiffy XKCD-like styling, one other thing his waffling routines allowed for was using FontAwesome icons. When you use an icon vs a block, you are…