Publications by jlebeau
Syrian Refugee Density in Lebanon
I’ve done a few posts on Syria and have used data provided by the UNHCR for different analysis or visualization. There are several links on their Syrian refugee data portal that communicate the breadth of this crisis numerically and visually. One such link had the locations of settlements in Lebanon and the number of people in each settleme...
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Syrian Refugee Settlement Clinic Locations
Previously I posted about the location of refugee settlements and how that had grown in density over time as well as in numbers. As many NGOs and non-profits work in the area, they are providing much needed assistance to the people living around the Zahle area. I wanted to look at the area again because of the breath of the crisis with Syria ...
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Syrian Refugee Informal Settlement Animation
This is an animation of the growth in Syrian refugee informal camp settlements in Lebanon over the past several years. You can see from the .gif that the growth was most dramatic in terms of the number of settlements in the Summer of 2013. The border has recently been closed and the number of additional settlements you can tell has dramatical...
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Winning a Marathon
The proliferation and participation in the marathon has increased substantially in recent years. No longer is the distance an event reserved for the super-athletic, but at least in the US one can from many vantage points on highways or streets see the infamous “26.2” sticker donning a rear windshield. In a previous post I logged partici...
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Winning a Marathon (Part 2)
In a previous post I looked at a data set published by the AARRS that provides a lot of data on marathons around the world and specifically the winning times of every* race. After spending a bit more time with the data there are a few more things we can take from this data that may be more helpful for personal use. As mentioned before, the data...
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Interactive Simple Networks
This post isn’t anything new in terms of analysis, but just a cooler look at a previous post. I looked at board members of large companies in a previous blog post and showed via a simple network how they share board members and provided some commentary about that in terms of how board membership represents desired influence in markets. Below...
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Presidential Approval and Applause
Some may have seen a twitter post about spurious correlations that myself and others mentioned on twitter. Basically this was a joke about how correlation can be found in many things that certainly have no influence over each other. I mention this because this post may or may not be in that category 😉About this time last year I looked at ...
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Boston Elite Field 2015
Last year I posted about how chances of a non-African country winning the Boston Marathon seemed to be good because of the widening interval of winning times (more recently there had been some historically “slower” races and some historically “faster” ones) and this actually happened. Meb Kflezighi ran a remarkable race and was widely ...
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Language Difficulty and Diversity
*For R users not interested in the post but the code, a markdown file is available on github. Thanks to Zuguang Gu and Bob Rudis for the ‘circlize’ and ‘waffle’ packages respectively.I’ve been studying Arabic for about 10 months now and had some thoughts that I wanted to post about. It’s challenging, but I didn’t know how cha...
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Continental Language Diversity
Since language data provides for the demonstration of many visualization techniques, I thought of using another set showing official languages spoken across continents using a new visualization in the “UpSetR” package. The graph can be used for comparing sets of data numerically. It provides an easier way to understand data for something ...
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