Publications by data_steve
Dumbbells get a little gg-smarter?
Bob Rubis @hrbrmstr recently has blogged several interesting posts [ 1, 2] about making dumbbell plots with ggplot2 via his package ggalt. @Tylerrinker did some really nice work reproducing a Pew dumbbell plot back in early 2015, which I found really helpful. Seeing @hrbrmstr’s posts reminded me of a project I did about 8 months ago. I was moc...
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5-min How-to on New Google Forms
googleformr is an API to Google Forms, allowing users to POST data securely to Google Forms without needing authentication or permissioning. Google Forms is a robust tool for collecting, analyzing, and storing data gathered through a webform on Google Drive. Since googleformr was created, Google Form has updated its user-experience of the Forms c...
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Setting Up New R Notebook
Today Noam Ross’ tweet about his experience with the new R Notebooks from RStudio got me excited. Can not find a GIF to properly convey the joy + wreckage of me messing around with the internals of the new #rstats notebook stuff.— Noam Ross (@noamross) May 23, 2016 Couple that with the release of JJ Allaire’s video at Open Data Science conf...
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5-min How-to on New Google Forms
googleformr is an API to Google Forms, allowing users to POST data securely to Google Forms without needing authentication or permissioning. Google Forms is a robust tool for collecting, analyzing, and storing data gathered through a webform on Google Drive. Since googleformr was created, Google Form has updated its user-experience of the Forms c...
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Setting Up New R Notebook
Today Noam Ross’ tweet about his experience with the new R Notebooks from RStudio got me excited. Can not find a GIF to properly convey the joy + wreckage of me messing around with the internals of the new #rstats notebook stuff.— Noam Ross (@noamross) May 23, 2016 Couple that with the release of JJ Allaire’s video at Open Data Science conf...
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Stop Shiny and Close Browser Together
I’ve been playing with shiny at work for a project Tyler and I have been pushing forward. My Goal We wanted to be able to deploy local instances of shiny app and then when user is done with session, the user can close out the session by closing the browser and shutting down shiny server at same time. StackOverflow and Google groups had several ...
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Stop Shiny and Close Browser Together
I’ve been playing with shiny at work for a project Tyler and I have been pushing forward. My Goal We wanted to be able to deploy local instances of shiny app and then when user is done with session, the user can close out the session by closing the browser and shutting down shiny server at same time. StackOverflow and Google groups had several ...
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Readability Trends in 350+ Public Addresses
Vocativ did an interesting analysis of the President’s State of the Union (SOTU) speeches, which we heard about via Partially Derative podcast. They showed that across the past couple hundred years and many Presidents, SOTU speeches have been targeted at audiences with lower and lower education levels. Vocativ’s in-print interpretation of the...
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NLP on NPR’s Commencement Addresses
Vocativ did an interesting analysis of the President’s State of the Union (SOTU) speeches. They showed that across the past couple hundred years and many Presidents, SOTU speeches have been targeted at audiences with lower and lower education levels. Vocativ’s in-print interpretation of the downward sloping trend was that a speeches have gott...
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useResearch – Usage Analytics for R Functions, Pt.1
useResearch This is the main part of the proposal Tyler Rinker and I submitted to the first ISC call for proposals by the R-Consortium. Our next post will describe useResearch: the solution we ended up building, despite not getting funded. Some details of the how part of our proposal have evolved in our development of the package, so here we focu...
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