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Using ProPublica "statefaces" in ggplot2
I'm a huge fan of ProPublica . They have a super-savvy tech team, great reporters, awesome graphics folks and excel at data-driven journalism. Plus, they give away virtually everything , including data, text, graphics &…
Stacking the deck against treemaps
They did an awesome makeover (it's interactive if you follow the…
Hy-phen-ate All The Things! (in R)
I started coding this to see if it could be a "poor dude's 'syllabifier'" (NOTE: "dude" is gender agnostic and I am fully aware of the proper NLP terms to use but it's way more fun to make up words) to make it easer to turn my Zellingach…
Supreme Annotations
I had not intended this to be "Annotation Week" but there was a large, positive response to my annotation "hack" post. This reaction surprised me, then someone pointed me to this link and also noted that if having to do subtitles via hacks…
Spinning Cycles in Box #4 To Take the Pies out of Pi Day
\>UPDATE: time spent per task factor order was wrong before. now…
ggplot2で字幕 <br/>[Subtitles in ggplot2]
UPDATE: this capability (+ more) are being rolled into ggplot2-proper. PR will be absorbed into ggplot2 main branch soon. exciting, annotated times…
Some Light Image Processing & Creation With R
A friend, we'll call him Alen put a call out for some function that could take an image and produce a per-row "histogram" along the edge for the number of filled-in points. That requirement eventually scope-creeped to wanting "histograms"…
OS X XQuartz Vulnerability Test Using R
It's usually a good thing when my #rstats and infosec worlds collide. Unfortunately, this time it's a script that R folk running on OS X can use to see if they are using a version of XQuartz that has a nasty vulnerability in the framework…
Primary Plotting
My wife tricked me into a partial-weekend project to try to get all the primary/caucus results to-date on a map (the whole us). This is challenging since not all states use counties as boundaries for aggregate results. I'm still piecing…
Capturing wild widgets with webshot
NOTE: you won't need to use this function if you use the development version of…