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The visual taming of a paradox

@drob has posted code to play with on Twitter today. To illustrate what he calls a veridical paradox he’s posted the set up, the code …
Last updated on Dec 31, 2019 3 min read

Federalist Papers

Every couple of weeks I like to explore data that’s brand new to me. I anticipate a one-hour, one-off project. Usually this turns out …
Last updated on Mar 15, 2020 8 min read

Covariance -- A Visual Walk Through

In a previous post, I’ve looked at walking through the calculation of variance and standard deviation, visualizing each step. This post …
Last updated on Mar 15, 2020 2 min read

Central Limit Theorem Demonstration

Sir Francis Galton described the Central Limit Theorem in this way: I know of scarcely anything so apt to impress the imagination as …
Last updated on Mar 15, 2020 5 min read

From N to Standard Deviation

This post goes back and forth between computing statistics for a single variable and visualizing these values. I’m using a subset of …
Last updated on Mar 29, 2020 6 min read

Layered Presentation of Graphics with +aes() in ggplot2

Here is the post is about how to implement a layered presentation of a graphics. Matthew Blackwell tweeted about the concept earlier …
Last updated on Mar 15, 2020 3 min read

First Blogdown blogpost

Last updated on Sep 28, 2019 1 min read

Hello R Markdown

R Markdown This is an R Markdown document. Markdown is a simple formatting syntax for authoring HTML, PDF, and MS Word documents. For …
Last updated on Sep 28, 2019 1 min read R

A detailed flipbooks origin story /*! jQuery v1.11.3 | (c) 2005, 2015 jQuery Foundation, Inc. | jquery.org/license */ …
Jan 1, 0001 102 min read

Data viz. Day one. /*! jQuery v1.11.3 | (c) 2005, 2015 jQuery Foundation, Inc. | jquery.org/license */ !function(a,b){"object"==typeof …
Jan 1, 0001 19 min read