Publications by Jakob Gepp

Optimising your R code – a guided example

Optimising your R code is not always the priority. But when you run out of memory, or it just takes too long, you start to wonder if there are better ways to do things! In this blog post, I will show you my way of optimising my R code and the process behind it. As an example, I will use the code from my last blog post about gas prices in Germany ...

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Using emojis and .png as icons in your ggplot

Nearly one year ago, I analyzed how we use emojis in our Slack messages. Since then, STATWORX grew, and we are a lot more people now! So, I just wanted to check if something changed. Last time, I did not show our custom emojis, since they are, of course, not available in the fonts I used. This time, I will incorporate them with geom_image(). It i...

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