Category Archives: data

ggplot2: How Geoms & Aesthetics ≈ Whipped Cream

Posted on March 21, 2018 by tylerrinker

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 often do various geoms appear and how often do they … Continue reading →

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Wakefield: Random Data Set (Part II)

Posted on April 30, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post is part II of a series detailing the GitHub package, wakefield, for generating random data sets. The First Post (part I) was a test run to gauge user interest. I received positive feedback and some ideas for improvements, … Continue reading →

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Random Data Sets Quickly

Posted on April 25, 2015 by tylerrinker

This post will discuss a recent GitHub package I’m working on, wakefield to generate random data sets. The post is broken into the following sections: Demo 1.1 Random Variable Functions 1.2 Random Data Frames 1.3 Missing Values 1.4 Default Data … Continue reading →

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Sochi Olympic Medals

Posted on February 9, 2014 by tylerrinker

For those who are addicted to R and haven’t the time to click the mouse on a web browser you too can still be informed about the results of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. I was inspired by a SO … Continue reading →

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ggplot2 Choropleth of Supreme Court Decisions: A Tutorial

Posted on July 5, 2013 by tylerrinker

I don't do much GIS but I like to. It's rather enjoyable and involves a tremendous skill set. Often you will find your self grabbing data sets from some site, scraping, data cleaning and reshaping, and graphing. On the ride … Continue reading →

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Function to Generate a Random Data Set

Posted on May 2, 2012 by tylerrinker

Often I find myself needing data sets to try functions and code out on or for teaching purposes.  I have a few stand-bys such as the mtcars and CO2 data sets in the base packages of R but sometimes I … Continue reading →

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