They say “if you want to find an answer on the internet, just present a wrong one as fact. Then wait.“ It didn’t take long, actually. Despite my searches while trying to get images into x-axis labels it seems I...Continue Reading →

Open-source software is awesome. If I found that a piece of closed-source software was missing a feature that I wanted, well, bad luck. I probably couldn't even tell if was actually missing or if I just didn't know about it....Continue Reading →

Can you predict the output from this code? Okay, the first bit is straightforward; it’s a function that puts two string together into one. The next two lines appear to provide a random integer to the set.seed function then sample...Continue Reading →

Another day, another compulsion to see if I can do any better than someone’s solution. This one also comes from the FiveThiryEight Puzzler challenge courtesy of Xi’an The original challenge this time was The misanthropes are coming. Suppose there is...Continue Reading →

Another day, another compulsion to see if I can do any better than someone's solution. This one also comes from the FiveThiryEight Puzzler challenge courtesy of Xi'an The original challenge this time was The misanthropes are coming. Suppose there is...Continue Reading →

This neat approach showed up recently as an answer to a FiveThirtyEight puzzle and of course I couldn’t help but throw it at dplyr as soon as I could. Turns out that’s not a terrible idea. The question posed is...Continue Reading →

I had never used slack before, but had read a heap of tech articles extolling its virtues. Apparently this is what our current Prime Minister advocates within Cabinet. The upcoming #auunconf organising team set up a channel and invited the...Continue Reading →

My name is Jonathan, and I have a coding obsession. I'll admit it, the Hadleyverse has ruined me. I can no longer read a blog post or stackoverflow question in base R and leave it be. There are improvements to...Continue Reading →

From Bob Rudis' blog comes a weekly data/coding challenge. I didn't quite get the time to tackle last week's but I thought this one offered up a pretty good opportunity. Half the challenge is of course data processing/tidying, which is...Continue Reading →

I'll be heading to the 2016 ROpenSci un-conference (hackathon) in Brisbane later this month to smash out a heap of open-science R code. Ideas are already flowing quite nicely, and I'm confident that any ideas we don't end up officially...Continue Reading →

Another day, another interesting challenge. I follow Bob Rudis' (a.k.a. hrbrmstr's) blog, typically via R-bloggers, and this post caught my eye. Partly because I thought I knew of an existing way to do this. As usual, actually getting that to...Continue Reading →

This was a neat graphic that someone made. It shows the population at a given latitude or longitude as a bar chart, overlayed on a map of the world itself. It shows where people live; the bigger the bar, the...Continue Reading →

Have you seen the little shark-fins on top of some traffic light control boxes? Have you seen the new 'x minutes to y road' signs? Did you know they're connected? DPTI installed a heap of bluetooth sensors around Adelaide and...Continue Reading →