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Spending Seized Assets - A State-by-State Per-capita Comparison in R
The Washingon Post did another great story+vis, this time on states Spending seized…
Plot Me Like a Hurricane (a.k.a. animating historical North Atlantic basin tropical storm tracks)
Markus Gessman (@MarkusGesmann) did a beautiful job Visualising the seasonality of Atlantic windstorms using small multiples, which was inspired by both a post by Arthur Charpentier (@freakonometrics) on using Markov spatial processes to…
Blast From The Past Also Reveals A Bit Of (US) Postal HIstory
I saw a re-tweet for this "Man From Mars Radio Hat" advertisement and—while it's awesome as a bit of nostalgia on it's own—it also reveals a bit about our (US) Postal…
Overcoming D3 Cartographic Envy With R + ggplot
When I used one of the Scotland TopoJSON files for a recent post , it really hit me just how much D3 cartography envy I had/have as an R user. Don't get me wrong, I can conjure up D3 maps pretty well [ 1 ] [ 2 ] and the utility of an…
Seeing the (day)light with R
The arrival of the autumnal equinox foreshadows the reality of longer nights and shorter days here in the northeast US. We can both see that reality and distract ourselves from it at the same time by firing up RStudio (or your favorite…
Charting/Mapping the Scottish Vote with R (an rvest/dplyr/tidyr/TopoJSON/ggplot tutorial)
The BBC did a pretty good job live tracking the Scotland secession vote, but I really didn't like the color scheme they chose and decided to use the final tally site as the basis for another tutorial using the tools from the Hadleyverse…
An Alfred (OS X) Workflow for Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) Data
I've operated a Weather Underground Personal Weather Station (PWS) [KMEBERWI7] off-and-on (hardware issues notwithstanding) for as long as I can remember, and I thought it was about time to finally do an Alfred↔PWS mashup. My personal…
R version of "An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables:"
Rick Wicklin (@RickWicklin) made a recent post to the SAS blog on An exploratory technique for visualizing the distributions of 100 variables. It's a very succinct tutorial on both the power of boxplots and how to make them in SAS (of…
OUT FROM THE DEPTHS! @GraniteSec LIVES!
Like GODZILLA rising to save Japan, GRANITESEC rises from dormancy (caused mostly by that sod @hrbrmstr) to fill your summer with food, fun & some other audience appropriate word that begins with an "F" to complete the alliteration…