How to Make High Quality Data Visualizations for Websites With R and ggplot2

In general, it takes little additional effort to make something unique with ggplot2, and the effort is well worth it.

August 14, 2017 · 9 min

The Decline of Imgur on Reddit and the Rise of Reddit's Native Image Hosting

Before Reddit added native image hosting, Imgur accounted for 15% of all submissions to Reddit. Now it’s below 9%.

June 20, 2017 · 5 min

Advantages of Using R Notebooks For Data Analysis Instead of Jupyter Notebooks

The relatively new R Notebooks improve the workflows of common data analysis in ways Jupyter Notebooks can’t.

June 6, 2017 · 8 min

Pretrained Character Embeddings for Deep Learning and Automatic Text Generation

Keras + TensorFlow + Pretrained character embeddings makes text generation a breeze.

April 4, 2017 · 15 min

Predicting And Mapping Arrest Types in San Francisco with LightGBM, R, ggplot2

Given that a SF police arrest occurs at a specified time and place, what is the reason for that arrest?

February 8, 2017 · 10 min