A tweet from Kyle Walker introduced me to data from the Office of Refugee Resettlement from the US Department of Health and Human Services. Using multiple R packages such as shiny, rCharts, rcdimple, leaflet, and d3heatmap, this post looks at the count...
This was a deck used in my presentation to the Inland Northwest R user Group this past Friday (August 14, 2015). It relies on the work done by many folks, including Ari Lamstein, Kyle Walker, Erik Erhardt, and the kind folks at R-Studio. Please click o...
Gardiner Harris, who is a South Asia correspondent of the New York Times, shared a personal story of his son’s breathing troubles in New Delhi, India, in a recent dispatch titled Holding Your Breath in India. In this post, I use data from the World H...
This slidify-based deck introduces the shiny package from R-Studio and walks one through the development of an interactive application that presents users with options to subset the iris dataset, generate a summary of the resulting dataset, a...
This post uses ggplot2 and rCharts to modify a grouped bar chart that appeared in an article that appeared online on October 19, 2014 in Wall Street Journal’s site. The article was titled “How to Sell a Liberal-Arts Education”. The code for ...
This post displays two animated choropleths. One for global mortality rates for children under 5 (per 1000 live births) and the second for the difference in global mortality rates for males and female children under 5 (per 1000). Please click here:&nbs...
Please click on the image for information on how to use R and ggplot2 to generate this plot.
While the feed from a newer github/jekyll blogging platform (patilv.github.io) is registered with blog aggregators, here are snippets of three posts that were recently published at the new site. Please click on the titles to visit the corresponding pag...
