A tweet from Kyle Walker introduced me to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Using multiple R packages such as shiny, rCharts, rcdimple, leaflet, and d3heatmap, this post looks at the countries of 69,986 refugees in 2014 and their destinations in ... [Read more...]

A tweet from Kyle Walker introduced me to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Using multiple R packages such as shiny, rCharts, rcdimple, leaflet, and d3heatmap, this post looks at the count... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (November 6, 2015). The introduction of htmlwidgetshas opened up a wide-range of options for R-users without having the need to pick-up on JavaScript to create great charts and I would like to thank the ... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (November 6, 2015). The introduction of htmlwidgetshas opened up a wide-range of options for R-users without having the need to pick-up on Java... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (August 14, 2015). It relies on the work done by many folks, including Ari Lamstein, Kyle Walker, Erik Erhardt, and the kind folks at R-Studio. Please click o... [Read more...]

This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (August 14, 2015). It relies on the work done by many folks, including Ari Lamstein, Kyle Walker, Erik Erhardt, and the kind folks at R-Studio. Please click o... [Read more...]

Gardiner Harris, who is a South Asia correspondent of the New York Times, shared a personal story of his son’s breathing troubles in New Delhi, India, in a recent dispatch titled Holding Your Breath in India. In this post, I use data from the World Health Organization’s Website ... [Read more...]

This slidify-based deck introduces the shiny package from R-Studio and walks one through the development of an interactive application that presents users with options to subset the iris dataset, generate a summary of the resulting dataset, a... [Read more...]

This post uses ggplot2 and rCharts to modify a grouped bar chart that appeared in an article that appeared online on October 19, 2014 in Wall Street Journal’s site. The article was titled “How to Sell a Liberal-Arts Education”. The code for the Rmarkdown file that generated this post can be ... [Read more...]

This post uses ggplot2 and rCharts to modify a grouped bar chart that appeared in an article that appeared online on October 19, 2014 in Wall Street Journal’s site. The article was titled “How to Sell a Liberal-Arts Education”. The code for the Rmarkdown file that generated this post can be ... [Read more...]

This post is my slidify-based presentation on dplyr, a package that provides tools for data manipulation. The idea for this came from a tutorial created by Kevin Markham on this package. After a link to my first presentation on this based on a dataset used in that tutorial (which is ... [Read more...]

This post displays two animated choropleths. One for global mortality rates for children under 5 (per 1000 live births) and the second for the difference in global mortality rates for males and female children under 5 (per 1000). Please click here:&nbs... [Read more...]

Please click on the image for information on how to use R and ggplot2 to generate this plot.  [Read more...]

This post displays two animated choropleths. One for global mortality rates for children under 5 (per 1000 live births) and the second for the difference in global mortality rates for males and female children under 5 (per 1000). This was put together after my wife sent a link to this optimistic story on NPR’... [Read more...]

This was generated using R and ggplot2. The code and details are coming soon. Departure of 2014 US Open Tennis Players was originally published by Vivek Patil at Adventures in Analytics and Visualization on September 15, 2014. [Read more...]

While the feed from a newer github/jekyll blogging platform (patilv.github.io) is registered with blog aggregators, here are snippets of three posts that were recently published at the new site. Please click on the titles to visit the corresponding page. 1. Frequent Speakers at Ted and Word Cloud of ... [Read more...]

[This article was first published on Adventures in Analytics and Visualization, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page [Read more...]

[This article was first published on Adventures in Analytics and Visualization, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers]. (You can report issue about the content on this page [Read more...]

This post uses pro-football (American) boxscore data from 1966 through 2013 and generates few interactive charts using rCharts, ggplot2 and shiny.  It also provided a first time exposure to the power of dplyr. Data for these charts were scraped fr... [Read more...]

This post uses animated choropleths to visualize violent crime rates in different US States across 5 decades (1961-2010). Data are retrieved from Quandl.  Animation of rCharts and googleVis based choropleths is done in the shiny server environment... [Read more...]