Happy Holidays 2019
Wishing all of my fellow data geeks a very happy holiday season. Celebrating by creating Holiday e-Card themed R graphs.
Magazine Review: Market Cafe Magazine
Market Cafe Mag is a beautiful and thought provoking magazine which showcases beautifully crafted data visualizations and information storytelling.
ATX GIS Day
ATX GIS day is being held in Austin, TX on Nov 13 to celebrate the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) data!
Package Review: gTrendsR
The gtrendsR package is an R package that can be used to programmatically gather and display Google trend information.
Conference Review: Grace Hopper 2019
Grace Hopper conference is a perfect place for data geekettes to unite!
Analyzing the bachelor franchise ratings with gtrendsR!
Which season of the bachelor really was the most dramatic ever? Analyze the relative popularity of the bachelor franchise seasons as measured by their google search traffic using R, gtrendsR, ggplot2, ggimage and gganimate!
Podcast Review: Data Viz Today
A podcast that opens up your mind up to a wide range of impactful data visualization techniques and considerations!
Package Review: magick
The magick package allows us to super easily work with images and animations in R!
"Building a SQL Library" Article by Caitlin Hudon
Caitlin Hudon’s blog shows us some needed SQL Truths and teaches us how to get started creating a query library.
Create an Icon Map in R with ggmap and ggimage
Learn how to create an icon map in R with ggmap and ggimage!
Tool Review: RAWGraphs
Check out RAWGraphs! It is a data viz tool that facilitates the creation of sophisticated graphing techniques without the code.
Website Review: Data.Gov
Check out the Data.gov website to discover a treasure trove of datasets made publicly available by the governments.
Website Review: From Data to Viz
Check out the “From Data to Viz” website to learn more about common graph types, their use, caveats and how to create them.
Create Easy to Follow Technical Tutorials
Tips and tricks to creating easy to follow technical tutorials.
Highlighting with ggplot2: The Old School and New School Way
A tutorial showing how to highlight a subset of your data in R within the context of the full data set. We review the old school way (ggplot layering) and new school way (gghighlight).
Set Analysis: A face off between Venn diagrams and UpSet plots
A tutorial to explore the differences between two practices used for set analysis: Venn diagrams and UpSet plots. Tutorial coded in R but similar concepts and packages are available in many tool sets.
Create interactive ggplot graphs with plotly
A tutorial showing how to create interactive ggplot2 graphs in R with the ploty package.
Let's get LEGO'd!
Create your own 3D Lego masterpieces in R using custom functions and the rayshader package.
R Studio Conf 2019 - Easing your FOMO with R Resources
Aiming to ease your RStudio::Conf FOMO by sharing as much R and conference information as possible. The goal is to help everyone feel included, ready to level up their R skills and engage with the community!