Publications by Laura Ellis
#FunDataFriday – gTrendsR
What is it?The gtrendsR package is an R package that can be used to programmatically gather and display Google trend information. Lately, I seem to be finding a lot of fun use cases for it, so I figured I would share the joy in my #FunDataFriday series!Why is it awesome?It’s an awesome package because it’s so simple! In three lines of code,...
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#FunDataFriday – ATX GIS Day
What is it?ATX GIS day is being held in Austin, TX on Nov 13 to celebrate the use of GIS (Geographic Information Systems) data! You can think of it as a bunch of super cool data people getting together to talk about geography-based data and analysis techniques. Why is it Awesome? If the description didn’t already hook you, it’s aweso...
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Easy US Maps in R – Thanksgiving Edition
I’ve created a number of blog tutorials on the subject of creating maps in R. Specifically, I’ve shared blogs on ggmap basics, icon maps with ggmap and more. Today, I’d like to share the package ‘usmap’ which enables incredibly easy and fast creation of US maps in R. In honor of US Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m going to make this blog ...
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Happy Holidays 2019
As we gear up for Christmas day tomorrow, I wanted to take this time to wish a very happy holiday season to all of my fellow data geeks! Rather than posting a happy holiday e-Card, I thought I might indulge in creating some gratuitous holiday themed graphs. In this blog we will showcase a tool called coordinator, created by Aliza Aufrichtig wh...
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Patchwork R package goes nerd viral
Y’all, a few weeks ago I came across the patchwork package created by Thomas Lin Pedersen. When I saw how easy it was to mix and match multiple R plots into one image, I gave it a quick share with some basic highlighting of how to use the package. I knew it was a cool package but I had no idea how excited people would get! For a relatively ...
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#FunDataFriday – See your TwitterBot
Hi friends, it’s been quite a while since I’ve done a #FunDataFriday entry and boy do I have a doozy for you today!What is it?A few days ago, Bryan D Martin shared a shiny app created by one of his undergraduate students (Thomas Serrano) which will read your Twitter history and produce tweets matching your patterns. Why is it awesome?It’...
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The pelotonR Package Debut!
Today marks the debut of my first open source package: pelotonR! I created the pelotonR package because I love my Peloton, and I love data. Naturally I wanted to marry the two worlds. When I first set out to get my hands my Peloton data, it proved a little trickier than I had hoped. The APIs are unsupported and only partially documented by the...
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#FunDataFriday – The Big Book of R
WHAT IS IT?The big book of R is an open-source web page created by #rstats community member Oscar Baruffa. The page functions as an easy to navigate, one-stop-shop for available books on the R programming language. WHY IS IT AWESOME?It’s awesome because it’s so easy to browse for new content on our beloved R. Oscar jumpstarted the website...
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Display Pretty R tables in GitHub
One thing I love about performing analysis in .Rmd (R Markdown) files is how easy it is to share your results publicly on GitHub. Create your analysis in the .Rmd file, set your output variant as below, knit to .md format and then add your files to GitHub! The ProblemThere is only one problem with the .md output: PRETTY TABLES! Most of th...
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Display Pretty R tables in GitHub
One thing I love about performing analysis in .Rmd (R Markdown) files is how easy it is to share your results publicly on GitHub. Create your analysis in the .Rmd file, set your output variant as below, knit to .md format and then add your files to GitHub! The ProblemThere is only one problem with the .md output: PRETTY TABLES! Most of th...
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