Announcing nationalparkscolors - Color palettes inspired by America’s National Parks

Introducing nationalparkscolors, an R package with 20 color palettes inspired by the landscapes, geology, and ecosystems of iconic US National Parks.

Beautiful Chord Diagrams with Flourish

Chord diagrams are one of the most effective ways to show pairwise relationships between entities. This post covers the theory, code-based approaches in R, Python, and JavaScript, and how to build them quickly using Flourish — illustrated with a real example from the Charlotte Regional Data Trust.

Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding: How It Works and Where We Use It

Bayesian Improved Surname Geocoding (BISG) is a probabilistic method that estimates racial and ethnic group membership using last names and residential geography — a practical tool for working with administrative data that lacks race and ethnicity fields.

Using tidycensus to Analyze ACS PUMS Data

The American Community Survey Public Use Microdata Sample (PUMS) gives you individual-level Census records for custom cross-tabulations and analysis. This tutorial walks through using the tidycensus package to pull and analyze PUMS data for Mecklenburg County, NC.

Make your code purr - A short intro to iterating using PURRR in R

breeze through loops using the power of purrr

Sahyadri - Yet another Rstudio Dark theme

Releasing the v1.0 of a new RStudio theme

Animated Plots with gganimate

A short tutorial to make cool animations with gganimate.

Comparison Slider for figures and images with RICV

Now sliders can be added to make impactful image comparisons