Publications by R. Paul Wiegand
W7a: Visualizing and Analyzing Proportions
Summer 2020 Outline Color, legends, and labeling Basic principles of part-to-whole Examples of basic methods to visualize proportions Additional methods to visualize proportions Interactive visualizations Color, Legends, and Labeling The Scale Function We can use the scale_? functions to change things like: Legend labeling Color palettes Sca...
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W9: Visualizing and Analyzing Relationships
Summer 2020 Outline Basic Principles Problems & Warnings Visualizing Correlation & Models in R Example Comparison: The Story of the Kendall Name Plotting in Python Using Tableaux Basic Principles Characteristics of Correlations When a correlation exists between variables, it can be described by: Direction – positive, negative, etc. Strength...
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COVID-19 Deaths vs. Overall Death Rate in FL, 2020
I recently wrote an R Notebook showing how to grab public data yourself to see that the COVID-19 deaths are not likely being hyped by the media. It focused on New York City because it has been the hardest hit; however, I thought I’d take those same scripts and show Florida, since that is where I live right now. Source Data The Center for Disea...
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COVID-19 Deaths In South Carolina Are Not Hyped
Starting in Summer 2020, I wrote some R Notebooks showing how to grab public data yourself to see that the COVID-19 deaths are not likely being hyped by the media. Initially, they focused on New York City and Florida because they had been the hardest hit; however, in Fall 2020, I started tracking South Carolina deaths. Periodically, I go back and...
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Covid-19 Vaccination Correlation
This is another one of my notebooks intended to show you how easy it is for you to get data and perform your own data analysis. Everything I do will be completely transparent. I give you the sources. I give you the code. I’ve commented the code so you can see what I’ve done. You can download the data and apply exactly this treatment and get t...
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