Why I used html5 for my today’s talk? My last presentation was in html5. This time I wanted to do my slides in something new. I prepared first few slides in Jessyink. Then I got to know that my friend … Continue reading →The post Data visualisation talk: Presentation using reports package appeared first on Fiddling with data and code.
I was flipping through my copy of William Cleveland’s The Elements of Graphing Data the other day; it’s a book worth revisiting. I’ve always liked Cleveland’s approach to visualization as statistical analysis. His quest to ground visualization principles in the context of human visual cognition (he called it “graphical perception”) generated useful advice for designing [...] Related posts: Good Graphs: Graphical Perception and Data Visualization Your Data is Never the…
Currently a lot of people are talking about the new shiny package. So I got curious and built an own, more or less useful app: A drink trackerThis app can be used to track how much someone drank and therefore it is very useful for every party, especial...
Measuring the effect of a binary treatment on a measured outcome is one of the most common tasks in applied statistics. Examples of these applications abound, like the effect of smoking on health, or the effect of low birth weight on cognitive development. In an ideal world we would like to be able to assign […]
I like to explore the graphics features of R. Base graphics, ggplot2 are my favourites. On other graphics packages, I haven’t used plotrix much. I am currently exploring grid package. Raptor First one is using ggplot2. (you could also do … Continue reading →The post Fun with R graphics: A raptor and a cake appeared first on Fiddling with data and code.
After a bit of a summer lull, the Montreal R User Group is meeting up again! We’re trying out a new venue this time. Notman House is the home of the web in Montreal. They hold hackathons and other tech user group meetups, and they are all around great people in an all around great
I have been playing with the beta version of qdap utilizing the presidential debates as a data set. qdap is in a beta phase lacking documentation though I’m getting there. In previous blog posts (presidential debate 1 LINK and VP … Continue reading →
One of the most widely seen FAQ coming across list serves and R help sites is the question: “How do I re-arrange/re-order (plotting geom/aesthetic such as bar/labels) in a (insert plot type here) using(insert graphics system here) in R?” . … Continue reading →
After the presidential debates I used the beta version of qdap to provide some initial surface level analysis (LINK to Presidential Debates with qdap-beta). In the comments of that post, annon (a commenter) provided a link to an analysis/visualization that … Continue reading →
qdap brief intro For the past year I’ve been working on a package (qdap) to assist my field in quantitative discourse analysis; basically looking at patterns in language. It’s still a ways from being finished and lacks documentation (roxygen2 is … Continue reading →
