Coding Train is a Youtube channel by Daniel Shiffman that covers anything from the basics of programming languages like JavaScript (with p5.js) and Java (with Processing) to generative algorithms like physics simulation, computer vision, and data visualization. In particular, these latter topics, which Shiffman bundles under the label "the Nature of Code", draw me to the … Continue reading Visualizing Neural Networks in Processing (Java)
Scraping RStudio blogs to establish how “pleased” Hadley Wickham is.
This is reposted from DavisVaughan.com with minor modifications. Introduction A while back, I saw a conversation on twitter about how Hadley uses the word “pleased” very often when introducing a new blog post (I couldn’t seem to find this tweet anymore. Can anyone help?). Out of curiosity, and to flex my R web scraping muscles a bit, … Continue reading Scraping RStudio blogs to establish how “pleased” Hadley Wickham is.
Short ggplot2 tutorial by MiniMaxir
The following was reposted from minimaxir.com QUICK INTRODUCTION TO GGPLOT2 ggplot2 uses a more concise setup toward creating charts as opposed to the more declarative style of Python’s matplotlib and base R. And it also includes a few example datasets for practicing ggplot2 functionality; for example, the mpg dataset is a dataset of the performance of popular models of cars … Continue reading Short ggplot2 tutorial by MiniMaxir
Variance Explained: Text Mining Trump’s Twitter – Part 2
Reposted from Variance Explained with minor modifications. This post follows an earlier post on the same topic. A year ago today, I wrote up a blog post Text analysis of Trump’s tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half. My analysis, shown below, concludes that the Android and iPhone tweets are clearly from different people, posting … Continue reading Variance Explained: Text Mining Trump’s Twitter – Part 2
Variance Explained: Text Mining Trump’s Twitter – Part 1: Trump is Angrier on Android
Reposted from Variance Explained with minor modifications. Note this post was written in 2016, a follow-up was posted in 2017. This weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump’s twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data: Follow Todd Vaziri ✔@tvaziri Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff). Every hyperbolic tweet is from … Continue reading Variance Explained: Text Mining Trump’s Twitter – Part 1: Trump is Angrier on Android
Leaving town at rush hour? Here’s how far you’re likely to get from America’s largest cities.
The Washinton Post is known for the lovely visualizations accompanying their stories. In a recent post, they visualized how long it would take you to get out of the downtown areas of various cities. They compared all the major U.S. cities and examined different leaving times. Unfortunately, I cannot copy the visualizations' text here, but … Continue reading Leaving town at rush hour? Here’s how far you’re likely to get from America’s largest cities.
Networks Among #rstats Twitterers
Reposted from Kasia Kulma's github with minor modifications. Have you ever wondered whether the most active/popular R-twitterers are virtual friends? 🙂 And by friends here I simply mean mutual followers on Twitter. In this post, I score and pick top 30 #rstats twitter users and analyse their Twitter network. You’ll see a lot of applications of rtweet and ggraph packages, as … Continue reading Networks Among #rstats Twitterers
114 Years of Phillipine Disasters, Visualized.
It’s easy to think that disasters as devastating as Typhoon Yolanda – the super typhoon that claimed over 7,000 lives in 2013 – only happen once in a lifetime. However, the Philippines got hit a few more times over the past century. Thinking.Machin.es provides an interactive history of almost every storm, earthquake, flood, volcanic eruption, landslide, … Continue reading 114 Years of Phillipine Disasters, Visualized.
t-SNE, the Ultimate Drum Machine and more
This blog explains t-SNE (t-Distributed Stochastic Neighbor Embedding) by a story of programmers joining forces with musicians to create the ultimate drum machine (if you are here just for the fun, you may start playing right away). Kyle McDonald, Manny Tan, and Yotam Mann experienced difficulties in pinpointing to what extent sounds are similar (ding, dong) … Continue reading t-SNE, the Ultimate Drum Machine and more
R Resources (Cheatsheets, Tutorials, & Books)
Last Updated: 18-08-2017 Over the years, I have collected many open-source R resources, and I thought it nice to share them with the public. The list below is ever growing so if you have additions, please comment below or contact me! R Basics Cheatsheet: R Base Cheatsheet Cheatsheet: R Base Functions Reference Card Cheatsheet: R Advanced … Continue reading R Resources (Cheatsheets, Tutorials, & Books)
