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Lilac Bloomsday Run in Graphs

July 18, 2013

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS: http://bit.ly/1obWRer. PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE. The Lilac Bloomsday Run is a 7.46 miles (12 kms) rac...

Visualizing a tiny slice of India’s demographics with information from Wikipedia

July 10, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Visualizing a tiny slice of India’s demographics with information from Wikipedia

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1ib8wTl . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.This post presents a tiny slice of a complex and...

Analyses of the Best Undergraduate (US-based) Business Schools of 2013

June 26, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Analyses of the Best Undergraduate (US-based) Business Schools of 2013

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1m1whzU . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.Link to the code for the analysis...

Revisualizing the best cities in the US in 2012- Shiny + googleVis = Incredibly powerful

June 24, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Revisualizing the best cities in the US in 2012- Shiny + googleVis = Incredibly powerful

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1hguDHM . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.This is the last time I will talk...

Twitter Twitter on the Web, Who is the Most Popular of All? Interactively Determining Popularity of Two Entitites on Twitter

June 12, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Twitter Twitter on the Web, Who is the Most Popular of All? Interactively Determining Popularity of Two Entitites on Twitter

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1jKxfDu . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.Code updated based on feedback (s...

Tweetanalytics – Interactively analyzing tweets from accounts of 5 universities

June 1, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Tweetanalytics – Interactively analyzing tweets from accounts of 5 universities

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1nzKbdq . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.This is an attempt at learning an...

Medicare Provider Charge Data – How Are Things in Spokane?

May 9, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Medicare Provider Charge Data – How Are Things in Spokane?

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1gWxlIa . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.Disclosure: I am not a health car...

Interacting, on demand, with 2012 best cities data and plotting different graphs —- Experiments with ggplot2 on shiny server

April 25, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Interacting, on demand, with 2012 best cities data and plotting different graphs —- Experiments with ggplot2 on shiny server

UPDATE: THE BLOG/SITE HAS MOVED TO GITHUB. THE NEW LINK FOR THE BLOG/SITE IS patilv.github.io and THE LINK TO THIS POST IS:http://bit.ly/1vRPV8h . PLEASE UPDATE ANY BOOKMARKS YOU MAY HAVE.Data from slides on Bloomberg bus...

Using ggplot2 to recreate 2012 Best Cities Results

April 18, 2013

By Vivek Patil

Using ggplot2 to recreate 2012 Best Cities Results

Data from: http://images.businessweek.com/slideshows/2012-09-26/americas-50-best-citiesThis time, I used ggplot2 to recreate the graphs created previously using Tableau. After all, R and ggplot2 are open source and free. Yes, I could leave a space...