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...]