In this post, you will learn how to create PowerPoint presentations using R and RMarkdown. There are other presentation options in RMarkdown and RStudio such as ioslides, slidy, and beamer, but for this post, we will focus on PowerPoint presentations. We will see three ways of creating PowerPoint presentations: Using the default RMarkdown option Using […]
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Introduction The argument of pie charts vs. bar charts is almost 100 years old, going back to Walter Eells’ paper titled “The Relative Merits of Circles and Bars for Representing Component Parts.” While pie charts are more common in business presentations, bar charts are finding increased use. There are advantages and disadvantages to both. In this […]
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Map in R In this article, you will learn how to create a really cool data visualization that appeared in the Economist. This chart looks like a map, but instead of your typical filled in maps a.k.a. choropleths, you see an area plot where a state should be. This chart gives you a lot of […]
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In this post, you will learn how to repeat certain analysis using R and RMarkdown. Recently, I saw many dissertations on higher education fundraising in which the researchers had used a data set, selected some variables, ran correlation or association as well as significance tests, and built a logistic regression model on the selected variables. […]
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In a recent article, I wrote about using Markov Chains and OpenAI’s GPT-2 to generate text. After writing that article, I wondered: how can I use the GPT-2 models to train my own AI writer to mimic someone else’s writing? I didn’t have to search for too long. Using these fascinating and helpful articles on creating poetry and writing […]
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