Publications by HighlandR
F is for Forecast
First steps with time series and prediction in R – At the August meeting of the Inverness R User Group, one of the members gave an introductory presentation on times series in R. One of the data sets we looked at were the weekly CO2 levels from the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii. This data is provided by the Scripps CO2 Program. At the...
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Daily metric tracking with ggplot2
In my role I have to produce a lot of run charts and control charts for monthly data, but sometimes there are processes behind the run charts that merit looking at the data on a daily basis. It can become impractical to start producing run charts split by day across all metrics (e.g. one for Sunday, one for Monday etc.) so as a quick way of visua...
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Daily metric tracking with ggplot2
In my role I have to produce a lot of run charts and control charts for monthly data, but sometimes there are processes behind the run charts that merit looking at the data on a daily basis. It can become impractical to start producing run charts split by day across all metrics (e.g. one for Sunday, one for Monday etc.) so as a quick way of visua...
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The hourly heatmap with ggplot2
a quick follow up to my last post – I’ve had a few folk get in touch following my last post, all commenting on the last plot : Most of these enquiries went along the following lines: “I hadn’t thought of doing that. It looks really easy. But how do you do it?” Unfortunately I was away the last couple of days without access to ...
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The hourly heatmap with ggplot2
a quick follow up to my last post – I’ve had a few folk get in touch following my last post, all commenting on the last plot : Most of these enquiries went along the following lines: “I hadn’t thought of doing that. It looks really easy. But how do you do it?” Unfortunately I was away the last couple of days without access to ...
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R to the Rescue
A strategy for gathering scattered spreadsheet data with R – A simple request Recently I was tasked with extracting data from multiple spreadsheets so that it could be included in a report. Seemed like a fairly innocuous request, but it turned out to be a bit more challenging. I had over 140 files to process. That’s not usually a b...
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R to the Rescue
A strategy for gathering scattered spreadsheet data with R – A simple request Recently I was tasked with extracting data from multiple spreadsheets so that it could be included in a report. Seemed like a fairly innocuous request, but it turned out to be a bit more challenging. I had over 140 files to process. That’s not usually a b...
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The Run(chart)ing Man
Measurement for improvement in healthcare with R and Qlik – My not so secret obsession Anyone in the small subset of the Earth’s population who both read this blog AND follow me on Twitter will know that I spend a lot of time at work either producing or analysing run charts, which we use to determine if our quality improvement work i...
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The Run(chart)ing Man
Measurement for improvement in healthcare with R and Qlik – My not so secret obsession Anyone in the small subset of the Earth’s population who both read this blog AND follow me on Twitter will know that I spend a lot of time at work either producing or analysing run charts, which we use to determine if our quality improvement work i...
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let there be progress
The ‘wrapr’ package for use with dplyr programming – I’m the first to admit I’m not an R expert, (even duffers can blog about it though), but when I began thinking about writing some dplyr functions to help me create and analyse run charts, I had no idea that I was going to struggle quite so much getting to grips with Non Stand...
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