Map Plots Created With R And Ggmap
A tutorial demonstrating how to create geographical maps in R using ggmap. Technologies include: R, Watson Studio and IBM Cloud.continue reading.
Category: Visualisation
The Travelling Salesman Portrait
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road (Stephen Hawking) Imagine a salesman...continue reading.
Ridgelines in bayesplot 1.5.0
It’s getting faster. Moving faster now. It’s getting out of handcontinue reading.
Digital Marketplace. Six months later.
Six months ago we considered the question: Is the Government realising its ambition for SMEs on G-Cloud? This article reviews progress six months later, additionally considering the Digital Outcomes &...continue reading.
Data Visualization Website with Shiny
My second Shiny app is dedicated to data visualization.Here users can simply upload any csv or txt file and create several plots:Histograms (with option for faceting)Barchart (with error bars, and...continue reading.
ggplot2: How Geoms & Aesthetics ≈ Whipped Cream
In this post I have a few goals: 1. Become (re-)familiar with available geoms 2. Become (re-)familiar with aesthetic mappings in geoms (stroke who knew?) 3. Answer these questions: How...continue reading.
Math Notation for R Plot Titles: expression, bquote, & Greek Letters
In this post you will learn: How to create expressions that have mixed (1) strings, (2) expressions, (3) variables & (4) Greek letters How to pass in values as variables to...continue reading.
Street Crime UK – Shiny App
IntroductionThis is a shiny app to visualize heat maps of Street Crimes across Britain from 2010-12 to 2018-01 and test their spatial pattern.The code for both ui.R and server.R is...continue reading.
Mandalas Colored
Apriétame bien la mano, que un lucero se me escapa entre los dedos (Coda Flamenca, Extremoduro) I have the privilege of being teacher at ESTALMAT, a project run by Spanish...continue reading.
Binning big data so you can visualise it later
Sometimes I find myself writing some program to count or get some statistic for big data (i.e. too big to … Morecontinue reading.
Using R in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS)
SQL Server Reporting services (SSRS) is an outstanding tool for creating, deploying and managing paginated, mobile, KPI reports as well as Power BI reports. Tool provides simple way to share...continue reading.
Criminal goings-on in a random forest
There’s a pay-off from an exploration of multiple supervised machine learning models. We’ll explore five approaches whilst predicting criminal goings-on in London. The post Criminal goings-on in a random forest...continue reading.
Mix ggplot2 graphs with your favorite memes. memery 0.4.2 released.
Make memorable plots with memery. memery is an R package that generates internet memes including superimposed inset graphs and other atypical features, combining the visual impact of an attention-grabbing meme...continue reading.
Mandalas
Mathematics is a place where you can do things which you can’t do in the real world (Marcus Du Sautoy, mathematician) From time to time I have a look to...continue reading.
Data Storytelling
A tutorial blog reviewing the art of data storytelling and showing how to use Flourish, a platform for storytelling and visualisationcontinue reading.
The plots thicken
Data science tells a story through visualisation. Both story and visualisation rely on a good plot. And an abundance of those has evolved over time. Many have their own dedicated...continue reading.
Where do you run to? Map your Strava activities on static and Leaflet maps.
So, Strava’s heatmap made quite a stir the last few weeks. I decided to give it a try myself. I wanted to create some kind of “personal heatmap” of my...continue reading.
The “cluster of six”
Unsupervised machine learning looks for hidden structure in “unlabeled” data, i.e. a classification or categorisation that is not included in the observations. Hierarchical clustering will reveal a “cluster of six” Labour MPs as...continue reading.
Data Science Graphs (without the code!)
A tutorial exploring RAW Graphs; a free tool enabling everyone to create high-end, data science style graphs without the code!continue reading.
Fatal Journeys: Visualizing the Horror
In war, truth is the first casualty (Aeschylus) I am not a pessimistic person. On the contrary, I always try to look at the bright side of life. I also...continue reading.
