Creating a 3D Precinct Level Map
Time sure flies. It has been a while since I have posted a tutorial, but I think I have a good one. The idea of Continue Reading Creating a 3D Precinct Level Map
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Create a Radial Movie/TV Barcode Using Polar Coordinates
This post is going to be a little different from my usual, as it relies heavily on calls to ffmpeg. This should work on Linux/OSX Continue Reading Create a Radial Movie/TV Barcode Using Polar Coordinates
Split Intermixed Names into First, Middle, and Last
Data cleaning can be a challenge, so I hope this helps the process for someone out there. This is a tiny, but valuable function for… Continue Reading Split Intermixed Names into First, Middle, and Last
Bigram Analysis of Democratic Debates
This tutorial will mainly focus on ggplot and bigrams, but it does gloss over clustering for a heatmap. This project started a while back, tweeting Continue Reading Bigram Analysis of Democratic Debates
Visualizing Bike Share Data (NiceRide)
This tutorial will cover exploring and visualizing data through 2018 for the Minneapolis, MN bike sharing service NiceRide. Part of what makes R incredible is Continue Reading Visualizing Bike Share Data (NiceRide)
Create 3D County Maps Using Density as Z-Axis
This is going to be a bit longer than some of my previous tutorials as it covers a walkthrough for sourcing data, scraping tables, cleaning, Continue Reading Create 3D County Maps Using Density as Z-Axis
MySQL Data Type Mapping in R
There was a recent question in the /r/Rlanguage subreddit which piqued my interest. They asked how to find the right mapping, and with the large… Continue Reading MySQL Data Type Mapping in R
Scraping Tables from Wikipedia for Visualizing Climate Data
If anyone else is like me, eventually when looking up a future destination you will stumble across the climate data table on Wikipedia. There is Continue Reading Scraping Tables from Wikipedia for Visualizing Climate Data
Machine Learning as a Service
What is Machine Learning as a Service? With all of this news coming out about Cambridge Analytica (and how they have leveraged/weaponized data science for… Continue Reading Machine Learning as a Service
Importing Large NDJSON Files into R
I ran into this problem recently when trying to import the data my twitter scraper produced and thought this might make a worthwhile post. The… Continue Reading Importing Large NDJSON Files into R