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A blog about data, science and data science

In this blog I aim to cover a range of topics related (sometimes loosely, perhaps) to my work. Expect posts on data visualisation practices (good, bad and experimental), data, statistics and science.

Monte Carlo Balotelli

Calculating the cost of collecting a squad of Mario Balotelli stickers.

This entry was posted in Simulation and tagged football, Monte Carlo simulation, R, sport, stickers, World Cup on June 23, 2014 by Tim Brock.

World Cup 2014: birthday data

Looking at the distributions of birth years and birth months of World Cup 2014 squads.

This entry was posted in World Cup 2014 and tagged d3.js, football, sport, World Cup on June 12, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Primetime: using advanced features to create fast-R code

This post details how we can use some of the more advanced features of the R programming language and a little bit of maths to make a prime-number-checking function more efficient.

This entry was posted in Tools and tagged C++, prime numbers, R, Rcpp on June 5, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Stick with me on this one: redux

More on the potential cost of collecting Panini football stickers.

This entry was posted in Simulation and tagged football, Monte Carlo simulation, R, stickers on May 19, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Stick with me on this one

My take on the potentially eye-watering cost of collecting football stickers on your own.

This entry was posted in Simulation and tagged football, Monte Carlo simulation, R, stickers on May 16, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Women’s skeleton at Sochi: an interactive summary

A short article about the sport of skeleton at the Sochi Olympics. The article demonstrates a way of enhancing a narrative report with an interactive chart.

This entry was posted in Interactive data visualisation and tagged article, interactive, Olympics, presentation, skeleton, Sochi, sport on February 19, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Integrating an interactive chart into a responsive web page

A introduction to some of the CSS and JavaScript I use to make interactive data displays responsive.

This entry was posted in Interactive data visualisation and tagged CSS, d3.js, responsive, SVG on January 31, 2014 by Tim Brock.

Communicating changes in rank over time: bumps charts and slopegraphs

Ideas concerning the tracking of carbon dioxide emission rankings through time.

This entry was posted in Chart design and tagged bumps chart, carbon dioxide, d3.js, interactive, R, slopegraph on December 31, 2013 by Tim Brock.

The carbon dioxide blame game

Some thoughts on the ways carbon dioxide emissions data can be manipulated in order to make a case for not taking any action to curb these emissions.

This entry was posted in Interpreting data and tagged carbon dioxide, R, Shiny, table graphics on November 29, 2013 by Tim Brock.

Multiple small multiples

A look at different options for the scaling of axes in small multiples.

This entry was posted in Chart design and tagged Population data, Small multiples, UN on November 18, 2013 by Tim Brock.

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