Publications by Laura Ellis
Data + Art STEAM Project: Initial Results
Big newsI’ve been incredibly fortunate as of late to work on an exciting STEAM project! STEAM stands for science, technology, education, art and math. It’s a term typically used in reference to education projects combining the subjects to creatively investigate a research area, solve a problem and teach students new skills. When I travel...
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Awesome Twitter Word Clouds in R
We have officially kicked off summer of 2018! Y’all know what that means right? SUMMER OF DATA SCIENCE!!! Imagine it now, you could be soaking up the rays while harnessing your inner data science skills ALL. SUMMER. LONG!!Summer of data science (aka #SoDS18 on twitter) is a community created by Data Science Renee to support and promote l...
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Highlighting with ggplot2: The Old School and New School Way
A while back I had tweeted about a really cool technique that can be used with ggplot2 in R to highlight a subset of your data, while keeping in perspective the trend of the full data set. I found out about this trick through a bit of a tangled web. Please stay with me while I lay it out for you. It all started with a tweet that Mara Aver...
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NASA Datanauts!
Over the past few days, some of you may have noticed that my twitter feed was abuzz with NASA related posts. Naturally, a few of you pinged me asking what the heck I was doing. Well, this week was the in-person kick off session for the fall 2018 NASA Datnaut class! You might still be wondering what this is all about. I get it, it seems a li...
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Get Started with R (For Free) in IBM Watson Studio
As you may have noticed, I blog a lot about R. I just can’t help it y’all, I’m like a moth to a flame with these fancy R packages. Since I try to make my blogs beginner friendly, I usually begin with a little talk about your options for running R code. As such, I wanted to dedicate a whole blog to explain your R options within IBM Wat...
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Create stylish tables in R using formattable
I love a good visualization to assist in telling the story of your data. Because of this I am completely hooked on a variety of data visualization packages and tooling. But what happens with you need to visualize the raw numbers? Do you open up the data set in the viewer and screenshot? Do you save the summarized data set locally and add a bi...
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Data + Art STEAM Project: Final Results
Look closely at the images above. Do you notice anything? If you zoom in close enough, you will notice that the pictures are composed entirely of small graphs and images. These images are part of the final results for my Data + Art STEAM project with Forest Hill Junior and Senior Public School.I have to admit that it took me much longer than I...
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Explore Your Dataset in R
As person who works with data, one of the most exciting activities is to explore a fresh new dataset. You’re looking to understand what variables you have, how many records the data set contains, how many missing values, what is the variable structure, what are the variable relationships and more. While there is a ton you can do to get up an...
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ggmap Tutorial Updated!
Y’all it may have taken me a little time, but I did listen. Thank you for your emails. Because of you, I have now updated my ggmap tutorial to address the Google Static Map API service issues! For those of you who have been following along with issue #51 in the ggmap repo, you’ll notice that there have been a number of changes in the Googl...
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R Studio Conf 2019 – Easing your FOMO with R Resources
Image credit: Results from the 2018 RStudio Learning R Survey, shared by Carl Howe at RStudio Conf 2019 Y’all if I had just one takeaway from R Studio Conference 2019, it’s that we are a friendly and tight knit community! Virtually and in person, we look out for each other. This past week, the FOMO was real, both from those unable to atten...
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