Articles
Welcome to my blog! Its original title, “pars pas les mains vides!” which translates as “don’t leave empty-handed!”, conveys what I’m aiming to do: capture things I’ve picked up along the way in the weird and wonderful worlds of #rstats, data science and dataviz, and share them with others who may find them useful for their own adventures.
Feel free to pinch the best bits and reuse them for your own purposes - that’s what these articles are here for! And if you want to say thanks or hello, get in touch!
How to make data viz that matches your organisation’s branding
Picking a colour scheme that ties in with a client’s brand or that evokes the subject matter behind the data is what allows datavisualisations to contribute to, rather than detract from, the main story the client is seeking to tell. This post covers both the design steps and the coding steps involved in creating bespoke colour schemes.
Setting up a generative art project using #rstats and GitHub Actions
For the last wee while, I’d been wanting to explore the fascinating field of Generative Art and add a continuous deployment project to my portfolio. Enter the @aRtfulBot, a Twitter bot I created to explore both of these at once!
Alignment cheatsheet
I’ve used {ggtext}’s geom_textbox() a lot in my recent data visualisations, but, every time, I end up resorting to a bit of trial and error to get the alignment just right. Time to create a cheatsheet that will be useful to my future self, and hopefully to a few others also.
