The following is from a hands-on session I led at the recent Computer Assisted Reporting conference. There’s a lot of activity going on with R packages now because of a new R development package ...

One of the most appealing things about R is its ability to create data visualizations with just a couple of lines of code. [This story is part of Computerworld’s “Beginner’s guide to R.” You’ll find ...

Posit’s ggbot2 is a voice assistant for ggplot2. Tell it what you want in a spoken conversation, and it will generate plots and ggplot2 R code from your data. Typing questions into a chatbot is nice, ...

For years, geneticist Helene Royo used commercial software to analyse her work. She would extract DNA from the developing sperm cells of mice, send it for analysis and then fire up a package called ...

A behind-the-scenes blog about research methods at Pew Research Center. For our latest findings, visit pewresearch.org. Pew Research Center releases its survey data publicly as IBM SPSS files with the ...

For data to be useful to humans, we have to be able to visualize it in a way that lets us understand the story it tells, and communicate it to others. Data visualization tools are constantly evolving ...