Author: Simon Jackson

@drsimonj here with a quick share on making great use of the secondary y axis with ggplot2 – super helpful if you’re plotting groups of time series! Here’s an example...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to share a (sort of) readable version of my presentation at the amst-R-dam meetup on 14 August, 2018: “Exploring correlations in R with corrr”. Those who attended will...continue reading.

Seeing a racist outburst made me wonder whether the Australian Government unfairly supports people based on their background. Using data from the Australian Government and Bureau of Statistics, I couldn’t...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to help you embark on git repo analyses! Ever wondered who contributes to git repos? How their contributions have changed over time? What sort of conventions different authors...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to share how I create and reuse corporate color palettes for ggplot2. You’ve started work as a data scientist at “drsimonj Inc” (congratulations, by the way) and PR...continue reading.

@drsimonj here with five simple tricks I find myself sharing all the time with fellow R users to improve their code! This post was originally published on DataCamp’s community as...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to share a ggplot2-based function for plotting path analysis/structural equation models (SEM) fitted with Yves Rosseel’s lavaan package.  Background SEM and its related methods (path analysis, confirmatory factor...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to share my code for using Welch’s t-test to compare group means using summary statistics.  Motivation I’ve just started working with A/B tests that use big data. Where...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to show you how to go from data in a data.frame to a tidy data.frame of model output by combining twidlr and broom in a single, tidy model...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to make pretty scatter plots of correlated variables with ggplot2! We’ll learn how to create plots that look like this:  Data In a data.frame d, we’ll simulate two...continue reading.

@drsimonj here to make pretty histograms with ggplot2! In this post you’ll learn how to create histograms like this:  The data Let’s simulate data for a continuous variable x in...continue reading.