For Fun

Recreating a Table by the Economist Using Reactable

Use {reactable} to create publication-quality tables in R.

Multiple Views: Recorded COVID-19 Cases, by County

An interactive D3 visualization of COVID-19 cases across counties and over time.

Are You Smarter Than a Criminal Justice Algorithm?

A quick game to see if you are more intelligent than an algorithm used to sentence millions of Americans.

Let Me Guess What You're Doing Right Now

Using data from the American Time Use Survey, let me guess what you’re doing. Right now.

Trends in Refugee Acceptance, 2002 to 2019

And, how (and why) to create small multiples maps in R.

How Many People Have Had COVID-19?

A novel way to visualize COVID-19 case counts.

How Much Does Your State Spend on the Police?

An exploration of state police budgets, and what else those budgets could buy.

Kanye West's Rebirth: How Being Reborn has Changed Kanye's Music

How the release of Jesus is King ushered in a new era in Kanye West’s discography.

Mapping Houston Homicides

An exploration of homicides in Houston. Winner of the Houston track at the 2020 Rice Datathon.

Mapping Missing Migrants

Since 2014, over 34,000 migrants have died or went missing on their journeys to a better life. Where?

Mapping Opioid-Involved Overdose Deaths

An interactive, animated D3.js map visualization depicting opioid-involved overdose deaths in the US, from 1999 to 2017

Mask Wearing in Your County

An Observable notebook exploring COVID-19 mask wearing in your county, featuring a cool bivariate choropleth.

Police Killings in the United States, 2013-2018.

Each square represents one person who was killed by police between 2013 and 2018. Explore them for yourself.

Quarantunes

What you listened to during quarantine.

Replicating Plots in R (Tidy Tuesday)

Using R to recreate publication-quality visuals.

Scrollytelling in R: Automation and Its Impact on Jobs

An interactive scrollytelling visualization, built exclusively in R Shiny.

Spikes in Firearm Background Checks During COVID-19

An analysis of firearm background checks during COVID-19.

The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Kanye West

My final project for DSCI 304, Effective Data Visualization

The Race for Media Attention

A D3.js bar chart race depicting media mentions of 2020 presidential candidates over time. Built in Observable.

Who is the Most Popular Character in The Office?

Using transcript data to analyze whose winning the Office popularity content.