An often requested feature for Hadley Wickham's ggplot2 package is the ability to vertically dodge points, lines and bars. There has long been a function to shift geoms to the side when the x-axis is categorical: position_dodge. However, no such function exists for vertical shifts when the y-axis is categorical. Hadley usually responds by saying… Continue reading
In previous posts I talked about collecting temperature data from different rooms in my house and automating that process using Docker and GitHub Actions. Now it is time to analyze that data to figure out what is happening in the house to make informed decisions about replacing the HVAC units and how I can make… Continue reading
The costs involved with a health insurance plan can be confusing so I perform an analysis of different options to find which plan is most cost effective My wife and I recently brought a new R programmer into our family so we had to update our health insurance. Becky is a researcher in neuroscience and… Continue reading
Data scientists and R enthusiasts gathered for the 5th annual New York R Conference held on May 9th-11th. In front of a crowd of more than 300 attendees, 24 speakers gave presentations on topics ranging from deep learning and building packages in R to football and hockey analytics. Speakers included: Andrew Gelman, Emily Robinson, Max… Continue reading
After four sold-out years in New York City, the R Conference made its debut in Washington DC to a sold-out crowd of data scientists at the Ronald Reagan Building on November 8th & 9th. Our speakers shared presentations on a variety of R-related topics. A big thank you to our speakers Max Kuhn, Emily Robinson,… Continue reading
This is the code for a webinar I gave with Dan Mbanga for Amazon’s AWS Webinar Series about deep learning using MXNet in R. The video is available on YouTube. I am experimentally saving htmlwidget objects to HTML files then loading them with iframes so please excuse the scroll bars. Packages These are the packages… Continue reading
So far this year I have logged many miles in the air and on the rails. In between trips to Minneapolis and Boston I spent about a month traveling through India and Southeast Asia, mainly to conduct R courses in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur for the likes of Intel, Micron, Celcom, Maxis, DBS and other… Continue reading
While we did our best to ensure that R for Everyone was error free, a few mistakes did slip into the book, both in code and text. The following is a list of known mistakes that occur in some printings of the book. Section 4.2 on page 37 When showing that the assignment operator <-… Continue reading
The other night I attended a talk about the history of Brooklyn pizza at the Brooklyn Historical Society by Scott Wiener of Scott’s Pizza Tours. Toward the end, a woman stated she had a theory that pizza slice prices stay in rough lockstep with New York City subway fares. Of course, this is a well… Continue reading
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Vibe Coding at the 2025 New York Data Science and AI Conference and 2025 ODSC West Mapping Ever Larger Data with PostGIS, DuckDB, GeoArrow and deck.gl at the 2024 R in Government and Public Sector Conference and the 2025 Data4Con Fifteen Years of Data Science in NY… Continue reading
