Publications by benjaminlmoore
Planning an R usergroup meeting in R
The Edinburgh R usergroup (EdinbR) put together a survey a while back to figure out some of the logistical details for organising a succesful meeting. We had 75 responses (and a few more after I grabbed the results) so here’s some quick analysis, all done in R of course. The code and data for these figures are available on the EdinbR github acc...
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Recreating the vaccination heatmaps in R
In February the WSJ graphics team put together a series of interactive visualisations on the impact of vaccination that blew up on twitter and facebook, and were roundly lauded as great-looking and effective dataviz. Some of these had enough data available to look particularly good, such as for the measles vaccine: Credit to the WSJ and creato...
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Interactive charts in R
I’m giving a talk tomorrow at the Edinburgh R usergroup (EdinbR) on how to get started building interactive charts in R. I’ll talk about rCharts as a great general entry point to quickly generating interactive charts, and also the newer htmlwidgets movement, allowing interactive charts to be more easily integrated with RMarkdown and Shiny. I...
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The Mandelbrot Set in R
The Mandelbrot set is iconic and countless beautiful visualisations have been born from its deceptively simple recursive equation. R’s plotting ecosystem should be the perfect setting for generating these eye-catching visualisations, but to date the package support has been lacking. Googling for Mandelbrot set implementations in R didn’t imme...
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Ligature fonts for R
Ligature fonts are fonts which sometimes map multiple characters to a single glyph, either for readability or just because it looks neat. Importantly, this only affects the rendering of the text with said font, while the distinct characters remain in the source. The Apple Chancery font with and without ligatures enabled. Maybe ligatures are an in...
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