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OECD.Stat is a commonly used statistics portal in the research world but there are no easy ways (that I know of) to query it straight from R. There are two main benefits of querying OECD.Stat straight from R: 1. Create reproducible analysis (something that is easily lost if you ... [Read more...]

I’ve seen some creative visualisations of issues surrounding the Australian election recently though not as many maps as I expected. ‘ggplot2′ is the go-to package for plotting in R so I thought I’d see if I could plot the Australian electoral divisions with ggplot2. By using the Australian ... [Read more...]

I’ve been learning about some new data visualisation tools in R. My three favourite so far are GoogleVis, rCharts and Shiny. Here is a Shiny app I made showing the monthly employment flows of the Australian labour force. [Read more...]