Joshua Kunst did a quick analysis on tag usage on StackOverflow, the question…
Coding
Snippets to mess with data.
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R growth on StackOverflow reigns supreme
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Extracting NBA player movement data
There’s no direct download, but there is an API.
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Tufte style charts in R
Lukasz Piwek is chipping away at a collection of Tufte-style charts using R,…
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R is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success
Most people who use R on the regular learned the language in the…
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Arduino Workshop, a good book for getting started
I started working through Arduino Workshop by John Boxall over the holidays, and…
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Accessible Web visuals and code with p5.js →
Visualization on the Web can be tricky for those unfamiliar with code. The…
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Responsive data tables
Alyson Hurt for NPR Visuals describes how they make responsive data tables for…
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Optimizing your R code
Hadley Wickham offers a detailed, practical guide to finding and removing the major…
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Create a barebones R package from scratch
While we’re on an R kick, Hilary Parker described how to create an…
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R for cats and cat lovers
Following the lead of JavaScript for Cats by Maxwell Ogden, Scott Chamberlain and…
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Introducing R to a non-programmer, in an hour
Biostatistics PhD candidate Alyssa Frazee was tasked with teaching her sister, an undergraduate…
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Live Coding Implemented
Remember Bret Victor’s live coding talk from last month? He presented an example…
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Programming gets you freedom to do what you want with data
Casey Reas and Chandler McWilliams asked visual designers why they write their own…
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Sorting algorithms demonstrated with Hungarian folk dance
We’ve seen sorting algorithms visualized and auralized, but now it’s time to see…
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Code to make your own movie barcodes available
You know those compressed movie barcodes that we saw last week? Here’s a…
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Why everyone should learn programming
Daniel Shiffman, assistant professor at the NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program, talks programming, computation,…
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How to Make Your Own Twitter Bot – Python Implementation
Following up on my post last week about using Twitter to track eating…