Publications by data_steve
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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R Posting Multiple Answers to Google Forms
googelformr In previous posts on how to use googleformr, I’ve always demonstrated the functionality on toy forms that had only one text box. User feedback from has suggested that functionality for posting answers to a form with multiple questions would be desirable. Happily, googleformr already has that capability. Using the gformr function we...
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R Posting Multiple Answers to Google Forms
googelformr In previous posts on how to use googleformr, I’ve always demonstrated the functionality on toy forms that had only one text box. User feedback from has suggested that functionality for posting answers to a form with multiple questions would be desirable. Happily, googleformr already has that capability. Using the gformr function we...
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Venn Colors: Happy Bday, John Venn
Tweet I know that venn diagrams are not as sexy as they used to be and that John Venn’s birthday was actually Aug 4, but venn diagram’s still serve a purpose here and there, especially if we can get some more interesting colors in there. Plus, this question on how to hack the venneuler color palette appears to have gone unanswered for a coupl...
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Venn Colors: Happy Bday, John Venn
Tweet I know that venn diagrams are not as sexy as they used to be and that John Venn’s birthday was actually Aug 4, but venn diagram’s still serve a purpose here and there, especially if we can get some more interesting colors in there. Plus, this question on how to hack the venneuler color palette appears to have gone unanswered for a coupl...
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HW Checker: R, AppScripts, & Google Forms
googleformr For the past few months I’ve been toying with the idea of using googleformr to empower data science-oriented instructors to use data science in their workflow. In this 2-part series of posts, I’ll show how to AppScripts and R to turn Google Forms into a homework checker. I was encouraged along this path by Martin Hawksey’s post ...
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HW Checker: R, AppScripts, & Google Forms
googleformr For the past few months I’ve been toying with the idea of using googleformr to empower data science-oriented instructors to use data science in their workflow. In this 2-part series of posts, I’ll show how to AppScripts and R to turn Google Forms into a homework checker. I was encouraged along this path by Martin Hawksey’s post ...
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Global Temp: Geo-Spatial Records over Time
Over the past couple months there have been datavizs showing global average temp trends. They have gotten a lot of media attention, so I got to see examples fairly regularly. Several of them (e.g., 1 and 2) used the same HadCRUT global temperature anamolies data, analyzing it with different techniques or technologies to highlight specific statis...
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Global Temp: Raw & Adjusted Sea-Surface Temps
In the last post I created a gif summarizing the HadCRUT4 sea-surface temperature (HadSST3) data as its data collection evolved over time. The goal of the last post was simply to visualize presence of any temperature measurement in a given matrix gridcell for that year-month global snapshot. In this post I thought it’d be interesting to sum up ...
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