Publications by Dylan Anderson
Animating England’s Lockdown Tier Maps in R
Since October, the UK’s COVID-19 strategy has been defined by the government’s Lockdown Tier system. Different regions, councils and cities have had their lockdowns change from Tier 1 – Medium Alert to the newly introduced Tier 4 – Stay At Home. Now everybody is in a national lockdown, but people all over the country continuously had trou...
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Storytelling With Your Graphs In R Using ggplot2
A few weeks ago, I tuned into an RStudio talk by John Burn-Murdoch about reporting and visualizing the COVID pandemic. As a data journalist at the Financial Times, he has been extremely influential over the past year creating well-known charts and graphics about the spread of COVID and it’s toll on the world. And it is all because his graphics ...
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Mesmerize Your Readers With Animated Graphs & GIFs in R
In my last post, I demonstrated that graphs and text can tell a nice story about how much the American public approved of each of the past 14 Presidents! So, how about we make the information more fun to watch? Luckily, R can accomplish this. With the gganimate and magick packages, GIF building is easy and effective. Let’s look at the end resul...
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Mesmerize Your Readers With Animated Graphs & GIFs in R
In my last post, I demonstrated how you can create graphs and text that tell a nice story about how much the American public approved of each of the past 14 Presidents! So, how about we make the information more fun to watch? Luckily, R can accomplish this. With the gganimate and magick packages, GIF building is easy and effective. Let’s look a...
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Visualizing the Proportion of Women In Governments Around the World
Happy International Women’s Day! In the spirit of the day, I wanted to do a post celebrating the many wonderful women of this world. In keeping with my political analytics topics, I thought it would be interesting to look at the proportion of women are in government by country, and how that has changed over the past few decades. Luckily The Wor...
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Analyzing Brand Sentiment with Robinhood, Gamestop & R
Brands are essential. They live in our minds as ideas and each person constantly interacts with hundreds of brands a day, sometimes positively, sometimes negatively. But what is their role in data science? Well given most tech is fueled by strong business brands, it is probably essential for any data scientist to have even a basic an understandin...
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