Violin Plots This chart is a combination of a Box Plot and a Density Plo that is rotated and placed on each side, to show the distribution shape of the data. The thick black bar […] Read more
Background of Pareto Charts A Pareto chart, named after Vilfredo Pareto, is a type of chart that contains both bars and a line graph, where individual values are represented in descending or... Read more
Histograms (with auto binning) Again, we will use the mtcars dataset and use the fields in that to produce the chart, as we are doing this there is nothing to […] Read more
Creating the Dot Plot Variance chart The data preparation was used in the previous blog entitled: Diverging Bar Charts – Plotting Variance with ggplot2. Refer to that if you need to [... Read more
Unlike most of the 2017/2018 cohort, when I applied to become a fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute, I was a civil servant rather than an academic. In this blog […] Read more
I love keyboard shortcuts. I work in R studio and using keyboard shortcuts has saved me a lot of time. There is a full list of short cuts here and […] Read more
Namespace issues Most of the functionality in R comes from additional packages that you load. Sometimes two packages will have a function with the same name but they will do […] Read more
This blog originally appeared in http://gastrodatascience.com There are a large number of file types that are able to store data. R is usually able to import most of them […] Read more