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Filtering in Shiny apps

For my data science lectures, I want to be able to run small Shiny apps (e.g. to demonstrate dplyr concepts). With my current knowledge of Shiny code, I am rather sure that…

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Shiny Apps in a Quarto Blog Post

I have long wanted to include simple Shiny apps in my lecture notes so that I can show data science concepts to my students quickly. Today, I want to see if shinylive helps…

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webR in a Quarto Blog Post

webR is a Quarto extension made by The Coatless Professor that allows users to type code right there in a webpage.

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Sentiment Analysis of The Office

This summer, I am mentoring some high school students through their data science projects. For a data set, I am suggesting the repository of scripts from the TV show The…

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ggflowchart

Today I explore the ggflowchart package (made by Dr Nicola Rennie). For some data, the scenario comes from The Planet Crafter video game. Later in the game (minor spoiler)…

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baseballr package

I want to get back into exploring sports statistics. This semester, some of my students pointed out that there is a baseballr package to ease data acquisition.

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Bayesian Neural Networks

Over the next few weeks, I want to learn more about Bayesian Neural Networks. Here in this blog post, I will gather resources and examples.

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Settlement Survival

One of my silly side-projects is to organize the dependency chart in the Settlement Survival video game into a mermaid diagram (or a similar flow chart).

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Highcharter

Recently, a colleague told us about the highcharter data visualization package. It seems to have wrappers for Javascript functionality, so we could aim for pop-up…

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Ghibli Palettes

Today, inspired by this article, I want to try out the ghibli package of color palettes inspired by some of the famous Studio Ghibli animated movies.

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AI Tools: Rubrics

Today we will talk about grading rubrics in a couple of ways

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30 Day Map Challenge

Even though I have done the 30 Day Map Challenge each of the past two years, since data visualization is just a hobby for me, I feel like I start from scratch each time.…

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Some Quick Baseball Stats

library("gt")
library("Lahman")
library("tidyverse")

df <- Teams |>
  filter(yearID >= 2004) #focusing on the past 18 season

readr::write_csv(df, "baseball_2004_2022.c…

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AI Tools Fall Working Group

This group of biology instructors will explore the new artificial intelligence technologies and ponder the ramifications on pedagogical environments. We will foster ideas…

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Linear Regression Demonstration

Predict how much moxillation takes place at 70 traxolline.

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Resources about Artificial Intelligence Tools

(I wanted web space where I can organize various links I have encountered about artificial intelligence tools.

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Using nbgitpuller

Each admin user (“instructor”) can verify the presence of nbgitpuller on their hub presence

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Hands-On Exploration of UDL Modalities

If you are planning on attending this workshop and participate live, I advise you to read only the pre-reading in advance.

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Fonts

Even though I am not planning on making lecture slides in the upcoming semester, I have been meaning to learn how to find and use fonts in my visuals.

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Quarto Resources

making myself a space to save/archive resources for learning/using Quarto

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Inequalities

There are probably several ways to graph mathematical inequalities in R. Here, I will simply try a brute force method of literally plotting many dots.

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TidyModels Trees

Years ago, I would use the caret package to perform a random forest search and plot an example of a decision tree. Can we do that now in the TidyModels module?

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graphviz

For years, I have been searching for the ability to make color-coded flowcharts, and I have found “graphviz online!”. We can use apps such as this one.

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Sex in a Biological Context

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Math Biology Video Project

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hospital_data

https://data.dartmouthatlas.org/

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JupyterHub Showcase

The following is a quick presentation for my share of the JupyterHub pilot showcase at UC Merced. We met with the 2i2c hosting service along with campus partners to explore…

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California Weather

I want to create and visualize a simple data set for my Data Science courses (that I teach in California).

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curly operator

The “curly operator” was added in rlang a few years ago, and I have yet to really use it much. It came in handy during a data analyst consulting gig I had during the summer…

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Stardew Valley Crops

Here is some quick code to help me plan a crop layout in Stardew Valley.

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Canvas_Roster

With the goal of learning my students’ names faster, I wrote an R script that will convert a roster (“People” in a Canvas course) to a gt table for later offline use.

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Seasons Greetings by Riinu Pius

a place to collect nerdy holiday plots

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Anyway Heres Wonderwall

A few days ago, data scientist Tanya Shapiro posted a neat image of guitar chords—that is, the diagrams were made using ggplot (I presume). Today, I am going to try to…

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Patchwork

In today’s entry, I am simply trying to remember how patchwork handles titles of each graph and an overall graph.

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Coefficient of Variation

For a future lecture in my Sports Analytics course, I want an example of a baseball statistic where the averages for two players are similar, but their variances in that…

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Intentional Walks

baseball

Today’s exploration and visualization practive was inspired by this tweet:

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Oblicubes

fonts

I always like to have something silly for the course image in the Canvas LMS for each of the classes that I teach. Today, I want to see if the oblicubes package by trevorld…

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Typewriter

visualization

Well, I was nerd sniped. Ryan Timpe tweeted an image that made it (at first glance) appear that the gtExtras package allowed users to display a gt table as if it was made by…

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Bump

sports

Today I want to try to make a bump plot while practicing with sports data. The Lahman data set has a lot of historical data about Major League Baseball. Data scientists have…

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overviewR

exploratory data analysis

Today I wanted to try out the overviewR package.

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Welcome To My Blog

quarto

This is the first post in a Quarto blog. Welcome!

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