Articles by R on Nicola Rennie

Mapping a marathon with {rStrava}

July 17, 2022 | R on Nicola Rennie

After a long run in the Forest of Bowland when visiting Lancaster for a few days, I decided to try out the {rStrava} package to make some maps of where I’d been. This tutorial blog will walk through the process of getting the data from Strava, making the map, ...
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Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}

June 5, 2022 | R on Nicola Rennie

I recently gave a talk to R-Ladies Nairobi, where I discussed the #30DayChartChallenge. In the second half of my talk, I demonstrated how I created the Goldilocks Decision Tree flowchart using {igraph} and {ggplot2}. This blog post tries to capture t...
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A Year of #TidyTuesday

December 28, 2021 | R on Nicola Rennie

One of my goals for 2021 was to participate in the #TidyTuesday challenge on a regular basis. This blog post reflects on the past year of data visualisations. For those of you who don’t know, #TidyTuesday is a weekly data challenge aimed at the R community. Every week a new ... [Read more...]

30 Day Map Challenge 2021

November 30, 2021 | R on Nicola Rennie

The #30DayMapChallenge is a daily mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. Every day in November participants create a map with a given theme (e.g. population, monochrome, raster) and share their results Twitter using the #30DayMapChallenge hashtag. Check out the challenge here. Although I’ve ...
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