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Over the last 5 years, I have created a LOT of graphs. And let me tell you, they haven't all been pretty. But with each new graph that I've created, I've improved my knowledge of what works and what doesn't. And I've used that knowledge to develop a s... [Read more...]

Over the last 5 years, I have created a LOT of graphs. And let me tell you, they haven't all been pretty. But with each new graph that I've created, I've improved my knowledge of what works and what doesn't. And I've used that knowledge to develop a s... [Read more...]

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I run this blog because I want to help you learn to be a better R user! But in order to do that, I need to know more about where you are in your journey and the kinds of problems you're facing. So, I'm excited to announce that over the ... [Read more...]

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Data wrangling. It's the process of getting your raw data transformed into a format that's easier to work with for analysis. It's not the sexiest or the most exciting work. In our dreams, all datasets come to us perfectly formatted and ready for all kinds of sophisticated analysis! In real ... [Read more...]

In my corner of the internet, there's been an explosion over the last several months of a style of graph called a bar chart race. Essentially, a bar chart race shows how a ranked list of something--largest cities, most valuable companies, most-followed Youtube channels--evolves over time. Maybe you've been following ... [Read more...]

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Back in January I wrote a post discussing how to get RMarkdown and Pelican to work together to make the R analysis __ blog post workflow a bit easier. While I had high hopes, I was never really happy with the setup I put together then, so I set out to ... [Read more...]

A while back I spent some time figuring out how to serve interactive shiny apps through my website, but I haven't had a chance to build anything until recently. I set out to create a few simple shiny apps in R that I could use as a sort of test ... [Read more...]

I recently migrated this site from a shared web hosting service to DigitalOcean because I was interested in learning about how to host my own site and how web servers work. I also wanted to play with and host shiny applications on my own site, rather than relying on a ... [Read more...]