I’ve said in several places that all my blog posts are fully executable code. I’ve provided a concise summary of how to access the code on my landing page, but I thought these instructions weren’t detailed enough for a novice user. This post will ...

Tombstone Project Overview I’m working on a project for my father that will culminate in a website for his genealogy research. There are a couple of different parts that I’m working on independently. In a previous part of the project, I matched a...

Intro/Overview to TidyTuesday 36: Union Membership in the United States This week’s TidyTuesday presents data taken from the Union Membership and Coverage Database from the CPS (Unionstats.com) created by Barry T. Hirsch, David A. Macpherson, and William E. Even. This database contains data about the wages of union ...

Intro/Overview Today’s TidyTuesday concerns US copyright law. Fair use is the right to use copyrighted materials in some instances. Fair use law isn’t always clear, and there is often litigation to decide whether something is fair use. This week’s TidyTuesday uses a data set created by ...

I’m still behind on TidyTuesday, so here is TidyTuesday #34, which deals with refugee data. This data is collected by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and the R package is updated twice a year. Loading Data and Libraries Librarie...

Last week I played around with the TidyTuesday data on hot sauces, but I didn’t polish anything or write any text. This week’s TidyTuesday data concerns spam email. I’m going to cover them both in this blog post. Loading Libraries library(tidyverse) # who doesn't want to be ...

Project Overview I’m working on a project for my father that will culminate in a website for his genealogy research. There are a couple of different parts that I’m working on independently. This part involves linking photos of family gravestones to an Excel sheet that records the GPS ...

This week’s TidyTuesday concerns what some have called the first randomized clinical trial- a study by James Lind evaluating various treatments for scurvy. This data has been collected into the medicaldata R package from Lind’s book on scurvy. Loading the Libraries and Data library(tidyverse) # who doesn't want ...

Today’s TidyTuesday is about place names as recorded by the US Board on Geographic Names. The dataset has been cleaned to include only populated places. This week will involve more libraries than normal, since I am going to play with mapping. library(tidyverse) # who doesn't want to be tidy? ...

I haven’t been TidyTuesdaying because I’ve been learning Tableau. I’ll write more about that later; but it has been an interesting experience and provides different perspectives on data compared to what you might get from R. (I’m sure you could re...

Today’s TidyTuesday is about the Portal Project, which is a long terms study on the ecology of Arizona. The study explores how ants, rodents, plants respond to climate in the desert near Portal, Az. A subset of the data is provided for this week’s...

Today’s TidyTuesday is based on a dataset about the London Marathon. The data is via a package by Nicola Rennie and there is an accompanying tutorial about how to scrape data from the web. library(skimr) library(tidyverse) library(ggthemes) libra...

Today’s TidyTuesday relates to the use of plants in the Neolithic era and is based on a paper by Arranz-Otaegul and Roe. The authors have made their data and analysis available on GitHub. The methods for generating all the figures and tables are in an RMarkdown document with some ...

1. Classification using tidymodels I will walk through a classification problem from importing the data, cleaning, exploring, fitting, choosing a model, and finalizing the model. I wanted to create a project that could serve as a template for oth...

I’ve used the credit card fraud dataset from Datacamp for a variety of projects, most notabily the tidymodels and imbalance class tutorials. I’ve used it when I was learning Tableau and also Python. One advantage of working with the same dataset...