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In God we trust. All others must bring 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…
Announcing The Launch Of The Data Driven Security [Blog|Podcast]
While you're waiting for the book by @jayjacobs & @hrbrmstr to hit the shelves, why not head on over to the inaugural post of the Data Driven Security Blog & give a listen to the first episode of the Data Driven Security…
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…
Newest Font Obsession: Lato
It was created over three years ago by Łukasz Dziedzic but I only discovered it recently when searching for something to use with my Live Maine Power Outages…
Slopegraph Workbench/Workshop in D3
I've been getting a huge uptick in views of my Slopegraphs in Python post and I think it's due to @edwardtufte's recent slopegraph contest…
One More Time…Mapping Maine Power Outages with D3
It started with a local R version and migrated to a Shiny version and is now in full D3 glory…
Back To Frank
Even though I really liked Origin , the performance issues associated with it were just too much to debug and I have a ton of other work to do. Back to Frank it is. Page loads are much faster and there are far fewer warnings in Google'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…