Publications by R on Nicola Rennie
Designing #TidyTuesday visualisations for mobile (with Quarto)
I’ve been contributing to #TidyTuesday challenges for about two years now, and my aim has always just been to play with new things in R. (For those of you unfamiliar with #TidyTuesday, it’s a weekly data project aimed at helping people develop their data wrangling and visualisation skills.) For week 31, Bear Jordan created a very nice bar ...
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Introducing {PrettyCols}
Making plots that are aesthetically pleasing has always been an important aspect of data visualisation to me. And when I later started creating generative art, I would spend time choosing colours purely based on whether they looked good together. On whether they made art that was pretty. Eventually, it became easier to convert those colours into...
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Automatically deploying a Shiny app for browsing #RStats tweets with GitHub Actions
A little while ago I saw this blog post by Craig Hamilton shared on Twitter. In it, he describes the process of building a Shiny app to search through his favourited tweets, after noting the difficulty of searching through tweets he had liked to find a link he wanted to look at later. Inspired by the blog post, I decided to build a similar Shiny...
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Creating flowcharts with {ggplot2}
I recently gave a talk to R-Ladies Nairobi, where I discussed the #30DayChartChallenge. In the second half of my talk, I demonstrated how I created the Goldilocks Decision Tree flowchart using {igraph} and {ggplot2}. This blog post tries to capture that process in words. Such an informative session! 💡For the illustration, @nrennie35 created ...
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Mapping a marathon with {rStrava}
After a long run in the Forest of Bowland when visiting Lancaster for a few days, I decided to try out the {rStrava} package to make some maps of where I’d been. This tutorial blog will walk through the process of getting the data from Strava, making the map, and animating it with {gganimate}. Last week's route mapped out in #rstats using {rStr...
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30 Day Map Challenge 2021
The #30DayMapChallenge is a daily mapping, cartography, and data visualization challenge aimed at the spatial community. Every day in November participants create a map with a given theme (e.g. population, monochrome, raster) and share their results Twitter using the #30DayMapChallenge hashtag. Check out the challenge here. Although I’ve been...
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Thinking about #TidyTuesday (and the Spice Girls)
Earlier this week, whilst curating for @ WeAreRLadies, I tweeted a thread on my thought process for this week’s #TidyTuesday challenge. This blog post expands on the thoughts in this aforementioned thread: It can be a little bit scary to make your first (or any) contribution to #TidyTuesday on twitter so I thought I’d outline my thought proc...
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A Year of #TidyTuesday
One of my goals for 2021 was to participate in the #TidyTuesday challenge on a regular basis. This blog post reflects on the past year of data visualisations. For those of you who don’t know, #TidyTuesday is a weekly data challenge aimed at the R community. Every week a new dataset is posted alongside a chart or article related to that dataset...
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