As a scholar who regularly publishes work with charts and graphs, I’m often confronted with varied requirements from publishers for the format in which they want the charts and graphs….
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Continue readingAs a scholar who regularly publishes work with charts and graphs, I’m often confronted with varied requirements from publishers for the format in which they want the charts and graphs….
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Continue readingNot everyone may be as particular as I am about having my files organized, but I like to make sure everything is where it’s supposed to be. I make sure…
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Continue readingI ran into an issue the other day that ended up taking me hours to solve, in part because I couldn’t find any other solutions online, which is pretty unusual…
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Continue readingI added a number of video files to my Plex server the other day and, when I checked Plex, some of them had not shown up in the corresponding library….
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Continue readingI use Plex to manage my music and video libraries. I actually don’t watch sports very often. The one exception is when I’m grading papers (I’m a college professor). I’ve…
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Continue readingWhile a bit technical, it’s occasionally useful to plot multiple data series that have very different scales in the same chart. Let me give an example to illustrate. Let’s say…
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Continue readingHere’s my situation. I have some data over time but I’m missing values in specific years. I want to graph that data but would rather not have to estimate all…
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Continue readingI recently had a colleague contact me for some computer advice. He knows I’m a computer geek and was looking for some help setting up a new Windows laptop for…
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Continue readingI’m a science fiction fan. And I want my science fiction at my fingertips. To that end, I have slowly been digitizing my favorite series (e.g., Star Trek, Stargate, and…
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Continue readingR has pretty amazing capabilities for creating charts and graphs. One of the most common packages for this is ggplot2. However, it’s not the most intuitive package I have used…
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