Intentional homicide is defined as unlawful death purposefully inflicted on a person by another person. The source of this stat is The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). I created the above image using ggplot2 which does 98% of the leg-work in most cases. Count is the number of ... [Read more...]

I was looking for data I could use with the geom_text() object in ggplot2 and came across this data from the World Health Organization about the suicide rates by country which I found very handy for my example. I used the scale_colour_gradient2() with 3 colors, red, gray and ... [Read more...]

I saw the release of a new version of twitteR package a few weeks back and thought I should be testing the code I wrote some time ago but also do something interesting at the same time. Thus I came up with the idea of checking out how Presidents are ... [Read more...]

One of the things that normally slow me down when I am learning a new tool outside working hours is the lack of an interesting project/task that forces me to investigate more about the sort of activities required to finish the project successfully. On ... [Read more...]