I saw this post on Reddit’s r/dataisbeautiful showing this plot of streaming services market share, comparing 2020 to 2021
US Streaming Services Market Share, 2020 vs 2021
and thought it looked like a good candidate for trying out some plot improvement techniques.
[Read More]You may have seen the memes going around about fun ways to program the
straightforward function isEven() which returns TRUE if the input is even,
and FALSE otherwise. I had a play with this and it turned into enough for a
blog post, and a nice walk through some features of R.
As soon as the R-Foundation posted that they’re inviting cleanup of old bugs, I knew it would be an opportunity to learn more about the way R works on the inside.
[Read More]I’ve written a few times about using an image as an x-axis label, and the solutions have been slowly improving. This one blows all of them out of the water.
[Read More]This journey started almost exactly a year ago, but it’s finally been sufficiently worked through and merged! Yay, I’ve officially contributed to the tidyverse (minor as it may be).
I’m at least as useful as Zoidberg
This is the last update to this strange saga… I hope.
This started out as a “hey, I wonder…” sort of thing, but as usual, they tend to end up as interesting voyages into the deepest depths of code, so I thought I’d write it up and share. Shoutout to [@coolbutuseless](https://twitter.com/coolbutuseless) for proving that a little curiosity can go a long way and inspiring me to keep digging into interesting topics.
This is what you get if you “glue” “strings”. Photo: https://craftwhack.com/cool-craft-string-easter-eggs/
I’ve been using the reticulate package occasionally for a while now, so I was surprised to see that it had only just been officially released.
[Read More]reticulate: R interface to Python https://t.co/qVWmwoMQAP. Comprehensive set of interoperability tools including R Markdown Python engine #rstats #pydata pic.twitter.com/SuWM6Y3Pk0
— RStudio (@rstudio) March 26, 2018
If that’s not a great 1960’s band name then I don’t know what is (hint: I don’t know what is).
This was just going to be a few Tweets but it ended up being a bit of a rollercoaster of learning for me, and I haven’t blogged in far too long, so I’m writing it up quickly as a ‘hey look at that’ example for newcomers.
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