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Mario Kart 64 World Records

(Tidy Tuesday is a project to supply weekly data sets for R users to practice their coding skills on. You can find full details here.) It’s been a while since I took part in a Tidy Tuesday, but having not played with any R code for a while I got the urge to create some utterly pointless plots this weekend, so here we are. This week’s dataset ...

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Generating Pretty Instagram Quote Images in R

Here’s a fun little project I worked on over the weekend. This script can take a .tsv file of quotes/text and their sources, and output pretty Instagram-ready quote images with a splash of random colouring. For example: I’d seen a few people getting onboard the quote-image train on Instagram as a fairly easy way of generating content for the...

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A modeler’s primer for working with SARS-CoV-2 genomic data

SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus that causes COVID-19. There have been a lot of really interesting analyses of SARS-CoV-2 genomic data that look at patterns over time in the circulation of different variants. When we started writing this post, we didn’t know how to use or obtain these data, many of which are publicly available. So we wrote t...

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