The jQuery Before/After plugin is a great interactive tool to explore changes through time. This plugin has been used to great effect by the New York Times to show changes in Japan before and after the tsunami that destroyed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. In most examples of the plugin, though, the maps are static […]
Continue reading →anti_join to find unmatched recordsIf you browse through our technical blog posts you’ll see quite a few devoted to the data analysis functionality in the R packge dplyr. This is due to the fact that we are constantly finding fun new functions to play with. We wanted to devote this small post to an unexpectedly useful function called anti_join. […]
Continue reading →The qgis2leaf plugin for QGIS makes it incredibly easy to create a basic, fully-functional Leaflet.js map using QGIS with no HTML/JavaScript/CSS programming. The plugin even allows you to use a variety of interesting basemaps including Stamen Watercolor (see our post on the watercolor map). To create a Leaflet map using the plugin follow these simple […]
Continue reading →ggplot2 cheatsheetEven the most experienced R users need help creating elegant graphics. The ggplot2 library is a phenomenal tool for creating graphics in R but even after many years of near-daily use we still need to refer to our Cheat Sheet. Up until now, we’ve kept these key tidbits on a local PDF. But for our […]
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