With the arrival of summer, another TokyoR User Meetup! On May 25th, useRs from all over Tokyo (and some even from further afield - including Kan Nishida of Exploratory, all the way from California!) flocked to Jimbocho, Tokyo for... [Read more...]

This blog post will provide an intro to {tvthemes} as well as some lessons learned (codecov, Github badges, creating a hexsticker, usethis::use_*(), unit testing for ggplot2, etc.) and the future direction of the package. What kic... [Read more...]

As the sakura bloomed in Tokyo, another TokyoR User Meetup was held, this time at SONY City! On April 13th useRs from all over Tokyo (and some even from further afield) flocked to Osaki, Tokyo for a special session focused on be... [Read more...]

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“Hey there criminal. It’s me, Johnny Law!” - Jake Peralta, NYPD. Brooklyn Nine-Nine has become one of my favorite sitcoms in recent years, probably taking over from Parks & Recreation and Community. So in this blog ... [Read more...]

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Another year, another big soccer/football tournament! This time it’s the top international competition in Asia, the Asian Cup hosted in the U.A.E. In this blog post I’ll be covering (responsible) web-scraping, data wrangling (... [Read more...]

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I’ve lived in a couple of countries where talking (or more typically whinging) about the weather is a national past time so I took things one step further, by making a blog post about it! The past few months we’ve had an abso... [Read more...]

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After posting a couple of my World Cup viz on Twitter, I thought I’ll collate some of them into a blog post. This will be Part 1 of a series as the World Cup goes on and I keep improving my viz skills throughout the tournament. ... [Read more...]

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In this blog post I weave in gganimate, tweenr, and highcharter plots while exploring the American policies that aided Japan’s postwar economic miracle! Back in college, I wrote a paper on this subject for my United States Econo... [Read more...]

In the past week or so, XKCD graphs of “The most comfortable place to live in ___” have been popping up on the #rstats community on Twitter. Jumping onto this trend (though slightly late), I will do one for Japan, the country where I was born! Some great examples that I’... [Read more...]

Part 1: Song length distributions with joy plots! Part 2: Breaking down the lyrics, word-by-word with tidytext In Part 3 we get into the core element of our analysis, investigating the various sentiments and emotions expres... [Read more...]

In Part 2 we will look at the lyrical content of the band, Thrice. By dividing the lyrics of each song into a single-word-per-row format, we can take a much closer look at the the lyrical content at various levels! Let’s get st... [Read more...]

(April-2018: updated to use ggridges package instead of deprecated ggjoy) Hello, for those who know me well you would know that my favorite band is Thrice! For those that aren’t familiar with them, they are a post-hardcore rock... [Read more...]