Posted on Tue 09 April 2019 in R • Tagged with R, Date • Leave a comment
When I was first learning R, working with dates was one of the hardest and most time consuming tasks I dealt with. There are so many things to learn! What do I do with as.POSIXct(), as.POSIXlt(), strftime(), strptime(), format(), and as.Date()? R date formats were confusing, and ...
Posted on Mon 08 April 2019 in R • Tagged with R, dplyr, filter, How To • Leave a comment
Data wrangling. It's the process of getting your raw data transformed into a format that's easier to work with for analysis.
It's not the sexiest or the most exciting work.
In our dreams, all datasets come to us perfectly formatted and ready for all kinds of sophisticated ...
Continue readingPosted on Thu 04 April 2019 in R • Tagged with R, Bar Chart Race, How To • Leave a comment
In my corner of the internet, there's been an explosion over the last several months of a style of graph called a bar chart race. Essentially, a bar chart race shows how a ranked list of something--largest cities, most valuable companies, most-followed Youtube channels--evolves over time. Maybe you've ...
Continue readingPosted on Wed 27 February 2019 in R • Tagged with R, Branding, How To • Leave a comment
In today's post I want to help you incorporate your company's branding into your ggplot graphs. Why should you care about this? I'm glad you asked!
Have you ever seen a graph that looks like this? Of course you have! This is the default ggplot theme, and ...
Continue readingPosted on Wed 14 June 2017 in R • Tagged with R, Pelican, Blog • Leave a comment
A clean & easy workflow for getting R analyses published as on a Pelican blog
Continue readingPosted on Mon 20 March 2017 in R • Tagged with R, Finance, Sentiment Analysis, Warren Buffett • Leave a comment
In this post I'm going to perform a text-based sentiment analysis of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway letters to shareholders from 1977 through 2016
Continue readingPosted on Thu 05 January 2017 in R • Tagged with R, Pelican, Blog • Leave a comment
In this post I'm going to be talking about how to easily modify your Pelican blog configuration to let you directly publish blog posts using RMarkdown.
Continue readingPosted on Sun 20 November 2016 in R • Tagged with R, Shiny • Leave a comment
In this post, I will present an interactive analysis on the popularity of baby names since 1880. The analysis was built in R, with interactivity provided with Shiny
Continue readingPosted on Sun 20 March 2016 in R • Tagged with R, Projects, Shiny • Leave a comment
A detailed guide to the exact steps I took to get a shiny server running on my 32-bit cloud-based ubuntu server on Digital Ocean.
Continue readingPosted on Wed 08 July 2015 in R • Tagged with R, SQL • Leave a comment
A brief tutorial on how you can create SQL tables directly from R to make querying based on a list of IDs a simpler process
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