Wrangle the Data suppressPackageStartupMessages({ library(tidyverse) library(rayshader) library(gt) library(gifski) }) The best part of any analysis are the visualizations. I couldn’t resist taking the results of our earlier sentiment analysis and turning it into some appealing eye candy. You’ll recall we tried several different approaches to ...

Overview ggblanket is a package of wrapper functions around the fantastic ggplot2 package. The primary objective is to simplify ggplot2 visualisation. Secondary objectives relate to: Scope: cover the most useful 80% of what ggplot2 does Design: pr...

We’ve just passed an important milestone for diffify: our app for tracking Python and R package releases has just turned 1 year old! To mark this exciting occasion we are delighted to announ...

Today’s TidyTuesday is about the Portal Project, which is a long terms study on the ecology of Arizona. The study explores how ants, rodents, plants respond to climate in the desert near Portal, Az. A subset of the data is provided for this week’s...

This is a great opportunity and I am honoured to be hosting this months T-SQL Tuesday blogging invitation. With the invitation of Steve, we have agreed to post topic on Data science. I will be receiving all of your answers…Read more ›

PaleoClim (Brown et al. 2018, Scientific Data) is a set of high-resolution paleoclimate surfaces covering the whole world. The data is derived from HadCM3, one of the major ‘general circulation models’ that is used to forecast climate change, turned backwards to ‘predict’ conditions for key climate periods in the past. This ...

Writing code is a slow process especially when you are first learning data science. What if you could speed it up? You can and this is how. In this free R-tip, I share a real case study where I made the working R code for my data analysis in under 30 ...

Introduction Many of us in the U.S. have been surprised by the indifference many in less developed countries have shown about the Ukraine war. There has been much talk lately about how the “Global South” is feeling slighted by the rich countries ...

Segmentation is a process of partitioning space into smaller segments. For example, imagine looking at your family photo and trying to distinct individual people. Similarly, we can look at a satellite image (in RGB colors) with the goal of delin...

A riddle from The Riddler on how many different numbers one could at most produce from six initial values and the four basic operations. In other words, how many values could the terms in a∅(b∅{c∅[d∅(e∅f)]}) could take? (With each ∅ being one of the four operations ...

I’m not a big movie person. Nonetheless I have a media library with quite a few films in and I wondered how many “films to see before you die”-type movies I had in the collection, and how many were missing. I used R to find the answers. I’...

Introduction Recently, I stepped into the AWS ecosystem to learn and explore its capabilities. I’m documenting my experiences in these series of posts. Hopefully, they will serve as a reference point to me in future or for anyone else following this p...

Back in 2016, I did a post on {ggplot2} text annotations because it was a tad more challenging to do some of the things in that post back in the day. Since I’ve been moving back and forth between R and Observable (and JavaScript in general), I decided to recreate ...