Shiny is one of the powerful tools in the hand of data analysts and data scientists to develop web-based applications and interactive data visualizations. The Shiny app consists of two important functions: UI and the server function. A key feature of Shiny is the use of reactive programming to automatically update the output when changes are made in the input.
We work on the dataset of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations to get hands-on experience of building a Shiny app from scratch (link for the app). The article is divided into the following sections:
Apart from hosting the main pipe operator %>% used by the Tidyverse community, the magrittr package in Tidyverse holds a few other pipe operators. The %>% pipe is widely used for data manipulations and is automatically loaded with Tidyverse.
The pipe operator is used to execute multiple operations that are in sequence requiring the output of the previous operation as their input argument. So, the execution starts from the left-hand side with the data as the first argument that is passed to the function on its right and so on. …
This is the last article from the series master the data visualization using the ggplot2
package. The complete list of tutorials are as follows:
Theme customization is key to increasing work efficiency for those who are regularly changing the default theme settings to make their visualizations more attractive. The default theme used by ggplot2
package is theme_gray()
. So, for this tutorial, we will use the theme_gray()
function to create our own customized function, theme_customized()
…
In the third part of the data visualization series with ggplot2, we will focus on circular plots. The list of the tutorials are as follows:
So, under circular visualizations, we will be covering on how to create the following charts:
Further, we will discuss the pros and cons of using these types of visualizations.
With great power comes great responsibility, use pie and spider charts wisely.
Apart from being the birthday of Albert Einstein, March 14 has a special significance. This day also has a nerdy twist to it being written as 3.14, being the approximation of pi constant, the day is officially celebrated as π day. Often people celebrate the day by baking or eating pie.
The mathematical constant is calculated by taking the ratio of the circumference of the circle to its diameter. In 2019, Google’s employee Emma Haruka Iwao, broke the Guinness Book of World Record by calculating the value of pi to the 31 trillion digits. The precise number of digit calculated…
I can understand your situation, this was my first encounter with CSS. At the moment, I don't have much knowledge to the subject matter to even think about writing on CSS. There might be some posts in other Medium publications.
All the best.
In the past, I always dreamt of making my resume using LaTeX, but the learning curve to achieve that polished looked never materialized. So, I always ended up making my resume using word documents and silently endured the alignment struggles that entailed.
Recently, I was going through the same cycle of updating my resume and spent a lot of time on alignment. Then I thought, let’s see if there is a permanent solution to this, and by chance, I pondered upon this lovely blog by Nick Strayer, which provides a very simple solution to automate resume building by dividing sections…
This is the second in the series on creating data visualizations using ggplot2
package. The list of the tutorials are as follows:
In this article, we will cover the difference between the histograms, bar plots, and density plots and when to use them, and how to plot the different variations.
The major difference between histograms and bar plots is that histograms are used to plot the frequency distribution of quantitative variables while bar plots…
Programming requires a lot of organization which sometimes can be challenging to maintain if working on big coding projects. Maybe it is too annoying to use the mouse all the time to run the highlighted code by mouse clicks. Or routine things like commenting or using a repeated operation get too boring then it makes you think can you find a shortcut for these tasks. All the things mentioned affect the working efficiency.
If you are an RStudio user then these 7 shortcuts discussed below will definitely be handy. How many of these shortcuts do you know beforehand? Are there…
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