How I used the kknn and ggplot2 packages together with some parallel computation to spatially interpolate several hundred thousand points.
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Beautiful thematic maps with ggplot2 (only)
In this blog post, I explain step by step how I (eventually) achieved a nice thematic map with pure ggplot2 – from a very basic, useless, ugly, default map to the publication-ready and (in my opinion) highly aesthetic choropleth.
Why data journalists should start using R in 2016
For me, 2015 was the year of R. The year I finally started to use R productively and on an almost daily basis (after years of learning and forgetting and learning all over again). In this post, I share my experiences and tell you why you should start using it for your next data journalism project in 2016.