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How the volume on songs has been turned up and up, told through the medium of the Spotify API.
Particularly useful in the time of COVID-19 – how visualise different local rates around the UK.
Americans are voting today to choose their 45th president. Come January, Barack Obama will leave the White House after eight years as President of the United States. So how will he be remembered? Historians are already trying to place Obama in the rankings of US presidents. I took this list of 18 different surveys from Wikipedia. It … Read More “How Will Barack Obama Go Down in the Rankings of US Presidents?” »
Andy Murray was crowned as the world number one in men’s tennis for the first time today. The two-time Wimbledon champion has long been out on his own as Britain’s best male tennis player and now he’s managed to overhaul Novak Djokovic at the summit of the game. It took Andy Murray a lot longer … Read More “Andy Murray’s Long Road to the Top” »
In a few months time I will be turning 27 years old. This means that my 16-25 railcard, commonly known in Britain as a Young Person’s Railcard, won’t be valid any more. But you’re 26? I bought my railcard a few days before my 26th birthday, which means I can keep using it until a couple … Read More “How Much Money Has My Young Person’s Railcard Saved Me?” »
Walking through what’s left of the heart of the Jungle. The camp ‘Main St’ pic.twitter.com/8tYau41NST
— Gavin Lee (@GavinLeeBBC) October 26, 2016
With the Calais Jungle being broken up and most of the migrants there sent elsewhere in France, it seems a good time to return to the topic of asylum (although there is a difference between asylum and migration).
The last post came in for some criticism on /r/rstats, in particular from /u/fang_xianfu, who argued it merely showed that London has more people than the rest of the country.
In our previous two–part series we looked at the melt function from the reshape2 package. The creator of the package, Hadley Wickham, pointed me towards tidyr and the gather function as a better alternative instead.
Before we begin: Hadley Wickham, the reshape2 package creator, pointed me in the direction of the tidyr package for melting data. I’ll take a look at it after this post. As promised from before, a look at @hadleywickham‘s reshape2 package and Home Office drugs data #ddj #rstats https://t.co/Q46eUijsaG — R For Journalists (@rforjournalists) October 18, … Read More “Melting Drugs Data: Part Two” »
Every year the Home Office, which is responsible for drugs policy, carries out an anonymous survey into use of illegal drugs in England and Wales.
