DC vs Marvel Comic Universe: which movies are doing better?

The latest Spider-man movie, Spider-man: Homecoming, has high hopes for the Marvel Comic Universe just as Wonder woman from the DC universe proved a huge success. The Marvel and DC comic universes both have some great superheros, but only a few of them are succeeding at the box office. I wanted to compare these super-hero […]

Why use R when you have Tableau? Tableau vs. R?

I have seen many discussions around Tableau Vs. R. Here are my thoughts on this topic. Tableau is a fantastic tool for pattern discovery using data visualization. It is usually my tool of choice when I want throw some data and keep playing with the data to see whether any patterns emerge. Learning and using […]

Improving Data Visualizations from the Giving USA Report

Anybody who ever wanted to find out the specifics of philanthropy in the US knows to read Giving USA, the authoritative report on the charitable contributions of individuals and organizations as well as the recipients of these gifts. I’ve used the report countless times to learn about the trends and to do benchmarking. I’ve also […]

Opportunity

After a long time, I went home — the place where I grew up. I flew for 18 hours to see my dying father. I had learned only a few weeks ago that he had a special type of brain cancer. Five months to live. Six with luck. I traveled similarly about 16 years ago. […]

NYT and WaPo Data Visualizations on Carbon Emissions Recreated in R

After President Trump declared that the U.S. was pulling out of the Paris agreement on climate change, the New York Times and Washington Post published a couple of stories. In these stories, they included a few charts. They caught my eye and I wanted to see whether I could tell similar stories and draw some […]