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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · 1d

Hey kids wanna learn something about my least favorite opera composer using #python and #rstats?

Building notes: How much area can this man fill with his conducting of Wagner's (kinda bad) opera? (Part 1)

I wanted to make a cool animation entirely by code but was like video editing software is neat.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have built the stupidest #rstats thing in the world. What if you had to race 6.4 miles against a Boston train and you're looping Taylor Swift's All Too Well (10 minute version) and you want to know where exactly key lines will be sung on your race? I made a Shiny app for that.

#databs #python

Building notes: Behold the stupidest thing ever built in R, ye mighty, and rejoice!

Looping Taylor Swift's All too Well (10 minute version) to pace yourself in a race against a literal train in Boston... But as a Shiny app. Come let's lose brain cells together.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Sep 1

A silly project in #Python to figure out if a specific card is worth getting #databs

Building notes: I can't stop playing Slay the Spire (send help) and so I must program something in Python

Justifying my time wasted by making a short and sweet Python project.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 29

I wanted to add videos to Quarto Closeread.
I did with local video files.
But realized I couldn't upload such big files into Github.
Hours wasted whoops!
#databs #rstats
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Building notes: Quarto Closeread but make it tuberculosis in opera (FAILURE!)

I was curious if I can add videos and audios for the storytelling effect. Short, simple, but ultimately a failure.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Aw, wicked, this gommage’s comin’ down hard, I’m tellin’ ya"
A #databs love letter to one of the greatest video game to be released this year

Building notes: What if we were French and being wiped out by a giant woman in Boston?

Every year, a giantess paints an ever decreasing number. Everyone with the age at or above that number dies. Can we code this up in Python and animate this in R?

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 21

Using #ggplot to make iconic scenes from musicals so I can annoy my wife with a silly game of charades. I am 100% sure this is what #rstats was designed for.

Building notes: Using ggplot2 for a visual charade on musicals (Or how I bring whimsy to my wife's life)

"I feel like if I can’t guess it, I’m uncultured; if I do guess it, I’m a theater kid… Either way, I lose," my wife said with the same enthusiasm of going to a funeral.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 20

TEASER:

YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 19

I tried to remake a subway art in #ggplot2 in #rstats. I... semi succeeded? I learned that you can Voronoi diagrams in ggplot.

Building notes: Remaking a piece of subway art that I had to stare at for a long time (because Boston transit can be like that sometimes)

Exactly as my Lana Del Ray-like song title suggests. What again was supposed to be silly turned to be an interesting adventure.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 10

Just a repost of a previous document I made about simulating linear regression. Also showing off the Tufte layout from #Quarto! A little primer in #rstats

Write-up: Simulating linear regression

Something I made before. Just a way to teach linear regression by simulation.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 9

Can you incorporate a smaller animation into a broader animation in #ggplot? (Can you make a goose walk across the screen with a knife In its beak? Answer: Yes) #rstats

Building notes: Untitled Goose Game but make it ggplot

Can I animate a goose chasing you down with a knife in its beak?

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Damie Pak @damiepak.bsky.social · Aug 8

More of a proof in concept rather than an actual data-viz (I'm making a different one). But I worked in Python to create an interactive network of #musical motifs. When you click on the node, you can get the specific motif to play: #dataviz #python

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 8

An extremely, extremely short update. I was dying from a cold AND from figuring out how to webscrape something. ChatGPT never helps me at all #databs

The Week of August 4th

I had a cold all week. And I survived. A very short update.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 5

A fool's errand? Making a 3D ggplot? I had Chappell Roan's newest single on loop and tortured myself into getting something complicated to work when I found an easier solution #dataviz #ggplot2 #rstats

Building notes: Linear regression viz in 3D

Listening to Chappell Roan’s new single “Subway” on an hour-long loop—can’t tell if I’m crying because of the song or the XQuartz installation error.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 2

A weekend building notes for making something really stupid. I wanted a stupid image/gif to pop up every time there's an R error. It worked but at what cost.

#rstats

Building notes: The infamous sticky note from Sex and the City and R

Some women walk away from their bugs. I turned mine into visual commentary. And just like that, it wasted HOURS of my life!

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 2

I'm trying this thing where I write as I go on a tiny project. I thought I could make a better version of the Sankey diagram? (Spoiler: it did not work out)

#rstats #ggplot2

Building notes: Sankey diagrams

I don't like Sankey diagrams for visualizing job offers. One woman's attempt to visualize it to her taste and realize her abject failure.

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YawpR @yawpr.bsky.social · Aug 1

Hello world! First post. Wanna see what happens when a theater kid is really into #rstats?

The Week of July 28th

Positron! Pandas! Oh My!

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