One of my favorite sources of good ideas is looking at the GitHub repositories of others and modeling my repos after the good ideas I see others doing. Here's Steve Jobs on stealing ideas: In the past few weeks I've … Continue reading →
One of my favorite sources of good ideas is looking at the GitHub repositories of others and modeling my repos after the good ideas I see others doing. Here's Steve Jobs on stealing ideas: In the past few weeks I've … Continue reading →
I don't do much GIS but I like to. It's rather enjoyable and involves a tremendous skill set. Often you will find your self grabbing data sets from some site, scraping, data cleaning and reshaping, and graphing. On the ride … Continue reading →
I recently presented about the mechanics of data visualization at the CLaRI Literacy Conference to a group of researchers, teachers and school administrators. The presentation is based on the work of Few (2012; 2009). While the presentation itself is not about … Continue reading →
When I first saw a graphic made from Yihui’s animation package (Xie, 2013) I was amazed at the magic and thought “I could never do that”. Passage of time… One night I found myself bored and as usual avoiding work. … Continue reading →
Why I had used html5 for my today’s talk? My last presentation was prepared using html5. This time I wanted some innovation while making the slides. I prepared first few slides in Jessyink. Then I got to know that my … Continue reading → The post Data visualisation talk: Presentation using reports package appeared first on Fiddling with data and code.
I’m very pleased to announce the release of reports : An R package to assist in the workflow of writing academic articles and other reports. This is the first CRAN release of reports: http://cran.r-project.orgreports/index.html The reports package assists in writing … Continue reading →
NOTE: THIS IS NOW A PACKAGE SEE THIS LINK FOR DETAILS Let me start with a video for people who just want to see what I’m demo-ing first: I’ve been interested in speeding up workflow lately and spending a lot … Continue reading →
The Rapid Predictive Modeler is a new tool from vendor SAS, that takes data mining in the hand of business analysts with "limited statistical [...]
