In this post I am giving a quick overview of how to create editable plots in PowerPoint from R. These plots are comprised of simple vector-based shapes and thus allow you to change labels, colours, or text position in seconds. Your project managers wi...

Introduction This is the 14th post in the series Elegant Data Visualization with ggplot2. In the previous post, we learnt how to modify the legend of plots when aesthetics are mapped to variables. In this post, we will continue to explore different ways to modify/customize the legend of plots. ...

Some highlights from Conference on Statistical Practice sessions: to keep it simple, just a few notes and my favorite slide per session I attended. I work in Population Health Analytics at Legacy Hospital System in Portland, Oregon, so some of these ...

During a very quick tour of Edinburgh (and in particular some distilleries), Dave Robinson (Tidytext fame), was able to drop by the Edinburgh R meet-up group to give a very neat talk on tidy text. The first part of the talk set the scene What does does text mean? Why ...

Is R base::subset() really that bad? Notes discussing subset() often refer to the following text (from help(subset), referred to in examples: 1, 2): Warning This is a convenience function intended for use interactively. For programming it is better to use the standard sub-setting functions like [, and in particular the non-standard ...

Yesterday a friend told me, “Yihui has written the most remarkably open blog post, and you’ve got to read it.” I did and it was. Though my post here is not about R per se, it is about a great contributor to R, our Yihui, Dr. of Statistics and (...

Just like your mom's chippity chipper recipe - In Data Science, there are numerous instances where different techniques call for the use of different tools. For me, this means hopping between R and python on a weekly basis. I’ve been fortun...

Corporate Regulatory Fines in the First Year of the Trump Administration We Assess the Monetary Fines and Settlements of Large US Public Corporations During the First Year of the Trump Administration We examine the current constituents of the Russell 1000, an index of large and mid size US public corporations. We ...

rOpenSci is holding our annual staff and leadership meeting in Vancouver, so we’re taking the opportunity to share what we do and, if you’re interested, how you can get involved. Join us for a series of 7 short talks and demos f...