Where is the centre of University of Oxford?
University of Oxford has over 800 years of history to it, but if you want to organise a meeting at the centre of campus… where do you meet?
Using ggmap after July 2018
ggmap is an awesome package for creating maps with ggplot2. If you’ve seen a nice looking map built with ggplot2 I can almost guarantee you that it uses ggmap to look that good. The ggmap package is …
Christmas Drinks ggplot2 Advent Calendar 2018
There are just about 24 Christmassy hot drinks available in the big UK cafes. I’ve made an advent calendae of them in ggplot2, read this post to find out how to do the same.
Crawling DOI from a SAGE
Academic literature reviews are more than often tedious tasks, manually clicking through a journal’s history of volumes and journals. But, not it you programmatically crawl the website with {rvest} and friends.
Great circles with sf and leaflet
Great circles are the shortest journeys between two points on a map, which can be easily computed and manipulated through the use of the excellent sf library, and visualised interactively with leaflet.
Recipes for learning
In this blogpost I introduce one of my favourite datasets, a treasure trove of 57,000+ recipes scraped from recipe websites for a fascinating research paper (DOI: 10.1038/srep00196) comparing how different cuisines choose ingredients. I first used this dataset in May 2015 to learn how to use R and continue to use it to test my understanding of new techniques and analysis.
Where’s the love for htmlwidgets?
If you’ve never heard of them, htmlwidgets are an amazing part of the work that RStudio (plus ramnathv and timelyportfolio) have undertaken to make R a beautiful tool for doing data science and communicating things about your data. Using leaflet, plotly, highcharter and more it’s possible to create rich interactive charts, maps and other visualisations directly from R without having to learn JavaScript