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@colebaril.ca
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📈 I love data & graphs | #RStats Programmer 👨‍💻 🦋 MSc | Medical Entomology 🦟 💪 Gym | 🧁Baking | Gamer 🎮 | Cat Dad 🐈 🌈 he/him 📍YWG

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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 18/07/2026
Up to date data on my backyard mosquito trap. While fogging by the city had an effect, it did not last long. It is also interesting to see the ration of Aedes vexans and Culex tarsalis completely flip after fogging. However I suspect this is driven from a shift from cool and wet to hot and dry.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 27/06/2026
This summer I’m collecting and IDing mosquitoes in my backyard. Why, you might ask? Mostly for fun, and I was curious about what species are there. Today I got my first real catch — mosquito populations are booming here following a lot of rainfall.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 11/05/2026
@hankgreen.bsky.social the prophylactic rabies vaccine is not bad to get. It's a normal vaccine, easier than COVID/Flu for me. The post exposure vaccine on the other hand, is not pleasant. I had to get the prophylactic one for work as I do zoonotic disease surveillance in small to medium mammals.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 17/04/2026
For #tidytuesday week 2026-04-07 looking at the repairability of household items via a repair cafe dataset, I compared repair completeness between categories (i.e., whether a repair was completed or partially completed). #ggplot #rstats #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 14/04/2026
For #tidytuesday week 2026-03-31, looking at coastal ocean temperatures in Nova Scotia, I was mesmerized by the seasonal pattern displayed in my initial geom_point exploration plot that I had to keep it. Temperature generally goes down with depth. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot2
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 31/03/2026
For #tidytuesday 2026-03-17 looking at Norwegian salmon mortality, there seems to be a clear temporal pattern when excess deaths occur for each species. Cheeky title inspiration from the legendary @alex4salmon.bsky.social 🙂 #rstats #ggplot #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 31/03/2026
Bear with me as I go through a backlog of #tidytuesday after being on vacation. 2026-03-10 - probability phrases #rstats #ggplot #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 25/03/2026
Just a little hike to the world’s highest lighthouse
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 19/03/2026
A bit late on #tidytuesday. Looking at week 2026-03-03, it seems female Hermann's tortoises are healthier on the mainland compared to the beach and pleateau regions. #rstats #dataviz #ggplot
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 18/02/2026
#tidytuesday 2025-02-10 looking at the 2026 Winter Olympics schedule. Shown below are the concurrent Olympic events binned by hour. #RStats #ggplot #ggplot2 #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 10/02/2026
For #tidytuesday week 2026-02-03 looking at an edible plants dataset, I was curious about relationship between sun and water requirements; I thought the more sun, the more water. However most edible plants like a lot of sun, but only a moderate amount of water. #RStats #ggplot2 #ggplot #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 09/02/2026
#tidytuesday week 2026-01-27: Brazilian companies. Not an economy or finance person but wanted to try my hand at a Lorenz curve and a ridgeline plot to show some of the data. #RStats #ggplot2 #ggplot #dataviz #brazil
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Davis Vaughan @davisvaughan.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited! - `filter_out()` for dropping rows - `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats! tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...
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dplyr 1.2.0
dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 01/02/2026
The Government of Canada recently undertook measures to eliminate positions to save money (Comprehensive Expenditure Review). Using data they released, I showed the number and percentages of employees to be eliminated either by attrition or by layoff. #rstats #tidyverse #ggplot #ggplot2 #dataviz
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 20/01/2026
For this week's #tidytuesday, in reading some of the #APOD posts, I noticed the Sun was mentioned a lot. I was curious to see just how much the Sun is mentioned. Turns out, the Sun is mentioned in 1/3rd of posts. Increasing over the years, but relatively stable month-to-month. #RStats
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 20/01/2026
For last week's #tidytuesday, I was curious about language diversity among prominent natively spoken languages in Africa. #Cameroon has the highest number of natively spoken languages, which is unsurprising given their vast (250-600 estimated) language diversity overall. #RStats #Tidyverse
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 06/01/2026
Bit late on the last #tidytuesday of 2025 looking at Christmas novels. I created a word map using the top 100 non stop words and a word sentiment tree map using the nrc lexicon. Positivity, joy and trust appear in higher proportion than other text datasets I've looked at! #RStats
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 28/10/2025
Did anyone else get absolutely destroyed by this year’s COVID/Flu vaccines?
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 23/10/2025
I feel bad that I randomly stopped my series. I got sick and then life happened :(
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 22/10/2025
We need this asap
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𝙹𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚜♔ @balougene.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My backpacking itinerary
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 09/10/2025
👽🛸 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 8 Today is part one of a multi-part segment on a UFO sighting dataset. For part 1, I created an interactive Shiny app to explore the data. Map points are clickable! colewb.shinyapps.io/alien-atlas/ #DataViz #R #Shiny #ggplot2 #RStats #Alien #UFO
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👽 Alien Atlas: UFO Sightings Map
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 08/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 7 Today's plot shows inflation adjusted U.S. Halloween spending across 4 categories from 2005 to 2025 (2025 anticipated). #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #Retail #Halloween
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 06/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 6 Spirit Halloween stores seem to pop up almost everywhere out of nowhere. I wanted to see just how ubiquitous these temporary shops are across North America. #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #SpiritHalloween #Retail #Halloween
A map of North America showing the distribution of Spirit Halloween stores using purple circles sized by store count. The highest concentrations appear along the eastern United States, particularly around the Great Lakes, the Northeast, and the southeastern states. Dense clusters also appear around major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Dallas, and Chicago, while western Canada has smaller clusters near Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Northern Canada, the northern U.S. plains, and remote regions show few or no stores. The map highlights how Spirit Halloween stores are most common in densely populated urban and suburban areas.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 05/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 5 Want to know which Halloween candy is most popular? Look no further. This Halloween candy constellation plot shows which candy traits are the most popular together. #Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #HalloweenCandy #Candy #TrickOrTreat
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 04/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 4 Today, I looked into U.S. pumpkin production. Illinois dominates in the U.S. due to its ideal soil type and favourable conditions for pumpkin growing. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Pumpkins #Pumpkin
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 04/10/2025
Almost non-stop lightning—in October. #mbwx #mbstorm
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 03/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 3 Today, I looked at the number of haunted places in each U.S. state. CA and TX have the highest number of haunted places. Does this have something to do with population...? #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Hauntings #HauntedHouse
Choropleth map of the United States shaded by the number of haunted places. Darker purple indicates more haunted sites. California, Texas, and Pennsylvania show the darkest shades with the most hauntings, while many western and plains states are lighter with fewer. A ghost icon is placed over the northwest and a bat hangs upside down in the southeast corner.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 01/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵 Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released. Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A heatmap titled Calendar of Creeps: Horror Releases by Month. The x-axis shows months (January–December), and the y-axis shows years (1980–2022). Each cell’s color represents the number of horror movies released that month, with darker orange meaning more releases. The chart shows a clear peak in October, especially after 2000, and a second, surprising cluster of releases in January.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 02/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 2 Continuing off yesterday's theme of horror movies, for today's graphic I made a word cloud from >32K horror movie titles using the tidytext and wordcloud2 packages. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A word cloud created from >32K horror movie titles using R’s tidytext and wordcloud2 packages. Words are arranged in an oval shape on a black background, sized by frequency and colored in red, orange, and yellow. The largest words include “dead,” “night,” “house,” “blood,” “ghost,” “death,” “vampire,” and “zombie,” with smaller related words like “killer,” “curse,” “terror,” “hell,” “monster,” and “massacre.”
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 01/10/2025
🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵 Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released. Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases. #Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A heatmap titled Calendar of Creeps: Horror Releases by Month. The x-axis shows months (January–December), and the y-axis shows years (1980–2022). Each cell’s color represents the number of horror movies released that month, with darker orange meaning more releases. The chart shows a clear peak in October, especially after 2000, and a second, surprising cluster of releases in January.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 26/09/2025
Starting October 1! I have been a busy beaver curating spooky datasets! #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse
Illustration for ‘Spooktober: Data After Dark’ featuring cute cartoon ghosts, flying bats, carved pumpkins, and colorful Tidyverse package logos scattered across a purple background, creating a playful Halloween and data science theme.
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Katherine Drotos @spiritofcavalia.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Google: here's an AI summary! Adobe: want an AI assistant? Zoom: get more done with an AI companion! Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot?? Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 25/09/2025
👻 Spooktober is around the corner! 🎃 This October, I’ll be posting a daily spooky-themed data viz created entirely in R/ggplot2. From horror movie heatmaps to haunted word clouds, expect a full month of creepy charts! Stay tuned & watch this space… 🕸️ #RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse
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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 11/09/2025
I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN. It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package. Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
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A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 29/08/2025
Skipped ahead to next week's (2025-09-02) #tidytuesday because I love frogs. #r4ds #datavisualization
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 24/08/2025
I spotted an Aedes vexans mosquito in my bathroom waving her hind legs back and forth. They do this when threatened to evaluate their environment and air currents.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 21/08/2025
#TidyTuesday Week 32, 2025 - Extreme Weather Attribution Studies 📊 It's almost like there's a connection between extreme weather events and climate change...
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 28/07/2025
I made a triple layer carrot cake for my grandma’s 82nd birthday! #bakingsky #baking
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 27/07/2025
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Scott P. Egan @scottpegan.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
Black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), north of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. #biodiversity #mothweek
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 20/07/2025
Maybe
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Olivier Simard-Casanova @o.simardcasanova.net · 19/07/2025
Trying to decipher LaTeX error logs be like
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 08/07/2025
Preparing an article analyzing some data from my recent job search. The x axis is a custom application progression metric measuring how far I made it. Sometimes, a lot of effort in an application and process leads nowhere. Other times, low effort processes can be relatively fruitful.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 28/06/2025
A busy bee!
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 18/06/2025
Some black swallowtail late instar caterpillars resting on dill.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 14/06/2025
Made some chocolate cupcakes for Father’s Day #baking #bakers #bakingsky #cake #cupcake
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 13/06/2025
I thought these were all engorged ticks
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 08/06/2025
This is extremely interesting just how similar the wings are to a wasp.
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