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Advent of Code 2024 - Day 3

Let’s try with test data:

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 5

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 1

Rightyo! Let’s solve with the toy example:

Advent of Code 2024 - Day 2

Capital Circles

I really enjoyed seeing other’s #30DayMapChallenge posts, and particularly those of Ansgar Wolsing. I spent a while thinking about this glorious post

Data Quest: Motorway Services UK

I’m working on a few ideas about Motorway Service Stations in the UK, or more specifically the mainland of Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales). However, I was…

Pros, Cons and Neutrals lists?

I thought it would be interesting for me to keep better track of the Pros, Cons and Neutrals that I discover/decide on and to find a way to visualise these nicely. The idea…

EDIT DISTANCE FOR CLEANING

How far can you live from?

Curves and stones

I’ve got a project I’m working on where I’ve been inspired by the elemental stones in the Fifth Element movie you can see to the right.

Beacons of restrooms

Bordering countries graph

In this post we’re going to build up this graph which shows all countries with at least one border and the connections that remain after removing countries with only a…

{highcharts} doesn’t like empty factors (and the .by argument is quite nice, actually)

Heard of {plotly} for interactive charts? I massively prefer {highcharts} as it’s more accessible, mobile friendly and simply more beautiful. Both of these packages are htmlw…

From the archive: 30DayChartChallenge 2022 Pictogram

Data visualisation

30DayChartChallenge 2022

This post has been rescued from a side-project blog that I’ve disposed of and slowly reposting content from. In this post I created one of my favourite charts:

From the archive: 30DayChartChallenge 2022 Waffles

Data visualisation

30DayChartChallenge 2022

This post has been rescued from a side-project blog that I’ve disposed of and slowly reposting content from. In this post I made this waffle chart:

Null checkboxes in Shiny

This was an idea I had

2022-09-01 Dataviz - Top 10 Sankey

This blogpost walks through how to obtain data about albums https://medium.com/@caineosborne/analysing-uk-chart-history-1956-to-2017-6fec0ecc991b

2022-09-01_ggplot2-breaks-geom-sf-calls-in-3-3-6

This is a draft blogpost.

How I learned to stop replicating everything from {xaringan} and love Quarto

Since the end of the rstudio::conf(2022) I’ve been working on replicating the {xaringan} RMarkdown presentation format in {quarto}. If you’ve never seen these slides before…

Adding {ggplot2} charts as popups to {leaflet} maps

I delivered a talk for the Failed it to Nailed it: Nailing your Data Visualisation: Training Workshop hosted by the Artificial Intelligence for Scientific Discovery Network+…

Creating an R-Ladies quarto format

It’s the day after rstudio::conf(2022), and like many folks in the audience I’m very excited about the future of {quarto}. (LINKS). To help me better understand the…

Overriding individual code chunk options

I’ve just moved this entire blog from {blogdown} to {quarto}. It was mostly simple but for one of the blogposts I really wanted a way to override individual code chunk…

Writing verbatim SQL in pipe chains using {dbplyr}

I’ve been trying to use the {dbplyr} package when working with SQL and R. It provides a really nice interface for writing tidyverse code against a database connection. I…

The Office: Who is who?

Shiny modules to reduce duplication in apps

shiny

Help reduce the duplication of code in {shiny} apps through the use of modules