I discuss how to use Inkscape to easily shift around labels on graphs produced in R. Continue reading →
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Implementation of the CDC Growth Charts in R
I implemented in R a function to re-create the CDC Growth Chart, according to the data provided by the CDC.In order to use this function, you need to download the .rar file available at this megaupload linkThen unrar the file, and put the Growth folder...
What value is cross country GDP correlation? [Part One]
![What value is cross country GDP correlation? [Part One]](http://www.backsidesmack.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/now-gc1-1024x489.jpg)
The above graph borders on chartjunk (and is nothing like Paul Butler’s amazing Facebook map). We can see some variation in color but mostly it is a set of lines between 152 country capitals with no means to determine which … Continue reading →
Day #34 Detailing graphs
Today mostly existed in adding details or changing certain aspects of my graphs. For example, I had to turn around the y-axis on my levelplot, circleplot, … which wasn’t so easy at first. But after a bit of googling I found out I had to rev...
Beeswarm Boxplot (and plotting it with R)
(The image above is called a “Beeswarm Boxplot” , the code for producing this image is provided at the end of this post) The above plot is implemented under different names in different softwares. This “Scatter Dot Beeswarm Box Violin – plot” (in the lack of an agreed upon term) is a one-dimensional scatter...
Charting For Fun
Interesting Charts Making Lemonade If you are working on the FREE eMetrics pass, and you really should if you need a free pass, I created some charts based on the sample data. These data are limited in terms of the … Continue reading →
Back from Philly
The conference in honour of Larry Brown was quite exciting, with lots of old friends gathered in Philadelphia and lots of great talks either recollecting major works of Larry and coauthors or presenting fairly interesting new works. Unsurprisingly, a large chunk of the talks was about admissibility and minimaxity, with John Hartigan starting the...
Once again, chart critics and graph gurus welcome
HOW TO DISPLAY A LINE PLOT WITH COUNT INFORMATION? In a previously-mentioned paper Sharad and your DSN editor are writing up, there is the above line plot with points. The area of each point shows the count of observations. It’s done in R with ggplot2 (hooray for Hadley). We generally like this type of...
Le Monde puzzle [48: resolution]
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The solution to puzzle 48 given in Le Monde this weekend is rather direct (which makes me wonder why the solution for 6 colours is still unavailable..) Here is a quick version of the solution: Consider one column, 1 say. Since 326=5×65+1, there exists one value c with at least 66 equal to c....
Zero Inflated Models and Generalized Linear Mixed Models with R.
Zuur, Saveliev, Ieno (2012).
