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Blog Entries

How to Execute the Code on My Blog by Downloading the Quarto File

R
quarto
R-code
GitHub

How to get my quarto code and data to run my projects yourself.

Jan 5, 2024
10 min

Geocoding Gone Wrong

R
mapping
geocoding
reverse geocoding
error checking

How I messed up my geocoding by not checking my work.

Jan 3, 2024
13 min

Some Lessons from Learning Tableau

Tableau

A few quirks of Tableau that might not be obvious to those coming from an R/ Matlab/ Python background

Jan 1, 2024
13 min

Thoughts on Building a Quarto Website

R
quarto
turtle

Some tips and tricks for using Quarto and RStudio to create a portfolio website and blog.

Nov 1, 2023
16 min

An Introduction to Web Scraping Using rvest

R
R-code
data visualization
tombstone
regex
web scraping
rvest
data cleaning
tidyTuesday

Web scraping data with rvest to enhance the information in the Tombstone Project.

Sep 8, 2023
30 min

TidyTuesday 36: Visualizing Worker Demographic Information with Treemaps

data visualization
R
R-code
code-along
treemap
tidyTuesday
d3treeR
interactive

Using treemap and d3treeR to create static and dynamic treemaps

Sep 5, 2023
7 min

TidyTuesday 35: Exploring Fair Use Cases

data visualization
R
R-code
code-along
tidyTuesday
stringr
data cleaning
dual axis plot
ggplot
cowplot

Using stringr::str_detect() functions to explore why variables from different datasets don’t exactly match.

Aug 29, 2023
10 min

TidyTuesday: Exploring Refugee Flow with A Sankey Diagram

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization
sankey
networkD3
ggsankey
htmlwidgets

TidyTuesday 34: Looking at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees data with a Sankey Diagram. Diagram created with networkD3 in R.

Aug 28, 2023
11 min

Mapping for the Tombstone Project

data visualization
R
R-code
leaflet
quarto
problem solving
mapping
code-along
spatial join
wordPress
leafpop
st_jitter

Methods for dealing with overlapping points and then styling a leaflet map with various labels and pop-ups.

Aug 15, 2023
17 min

Tidy Tuesday Twofer (32 and 33)

R
R-code
code-along
tidyTuesday
corrplot

Looking at how heat levels increase on the show The Hot Ones. Then doing some EDA on a data set on spam emails.

Aug 15, 2023
9 min

Data Cleaning for the Tombstone Project

data visualization
R
R-code
fuzzyjoin
quarto
leaflet
regex
stringr
data cleaning
problem solving
mapping
sf
code-along

Using StringR to clean a human created excel sheet full of typos and formatting inconsistencies. Then matching excel data to photo names.

Aug 4, 2023
51 min

States

R
R-code
code-along
tidyTuesday
tidy
gwalkr
tableau Alternative
exploratory data analysis
interactive

Using GWalkR to create an interactive exploratory data analysis window similar to Tableau.

Aug 1, 2023
5 min

A Heatmap of James Lind’s Scurvy Study

R
R-code
code-along
tidyTuesday
tidy
heatmap
ggplot
tidyverse
ggthemes

Making a Heatmap of James Lind’s Scurvy Study using ggplot. Data cleaning and reformating handled through tidyverse packages.

Jul 25, 2023
6 min

TidyTuesday Week 28: Global Surface Temperature

R
R-code
code-along
tidyTuesday
tidy
gganimate

Making an animated graph of global temperature change over time with gganimate.

Jul 11, 2023
7 min

TidyTuesday Week 27: Historical Markers

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
data visualization
sf
leaflet

TidyTuesday: Interactive Map of Arlington Historic Markers

Jul 4, 2023
11 min

Tidy Tuesday Revisited: Interactive Map of Arlington Historic Neighborhoods

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
data visualization
sf
leaflet

TidyTuesday: Interactive Map of Historic Neighborhoods of Arlington Virginia

Jun 29, 2023
6 min

Tidy Tuesday: US Populated Places

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
data visualization
openxlsx
stringr
fuzzyjoin
mapview
sf

TidyTuesday: Historic Neighborhoods of Arlington Virginia

Jun 27, 2023
13 min

TidyTuesday Week 25: UFO Sightings Redux

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization

TidyTuesday: UFO Sightings

Jun 20, 2023
9 min

TidyTuesday Week 18: Portal Project

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization
data validation
exploratory data analysis

TidyTuesday: Rodents of Portal Arizona

May 2, 2023
8 min

TidyTuesday Week 17: London Marathon

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization

TidyTuesday: Exploring the London Marathon

Apr 25, 2023
6 min

TidyTuesday Week 16: Neolithic Founder Crops

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
data visualization

TidyTuesday: Exploring early agriculture in SW Asia

Apr 18, 2023
7 min

Credit Card Fraud: A Tidymodels Tutorial

R
R-code
tidymodels
machine learning
classifiers

An Imbalanced Class Problem

Apr 11, 2023
39 min

A Tidymodels Tutorial: A Structural Approach

R
R-code
tidymodels
machine learning
hyperparameters
workflows

Exploring the different steps for modeling

Apr 10, 2023
22 min

30 Day Chart Challenge- Endangered Species

R
R-code
code-along
30DayChartChallenge
waffle

How many species have been delisted?

Apr 4, 2023
6 min

30 Day Chart Challenge- Flora and Fauna

R
R-code
code-along
turtle
30DayChartChallenge

How Large are Different Types of Turtles?

Apr 3, 2023
4 min

30 Day Chart Challenge -Arlington Parks

R
R-code
code-along
waffle
30DayChartChallenge

Who Owns the Parks in Arlington Virgina?

Apr 2, 2023
6 min

Self-Guided Learning through a Wordle Guess Generator: Part 1

R
R-code

Skills improvement with a Wordle Guess Generator

Apr 1, 2023
17 min

Self-Guided Learning through a Wordle Guess Generator: Part 2

R
R-code

Current version of a Wordle Guess Generator

Apr 1, 2023
9 min

One Class SVM

R
R-code
code-along
machine learning
caret
svm
classifiers
support vector machines

One Class SVM for Imbalanced Classes

Mar 30, 2023
8 min

Tidy Tuesday: Daylight Savings Time

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization
ggimage
mapping

TidyTuesday: Exploring Time Zones and Daylight Savings Time

Mar 28, 2023
5 min

TidyTuesday Week 12: Programming Languages Revisited

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along
data visualization
skimr

TidyTuesday: Polishing

Mar 24, 2023
6 min

Twitter Cards

quarto
turtle

Making Twitter Cards

Mar 24, 2023
1 min

TidyTuesday Week 12: Programming Languages

R
tidyTuesday
R-code
code-along

TidyTuesday: How to comment in Various Programming Languages

Mar 21, 2023
7 min

Creating a Blog

quarto
R
turtle

Trying to create a Quarto Blog

Mar 14, 2023
2 min
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