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Cole 🐛

@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 · 29/04/2026
Same here. It’s like what happened to recipe sites is now happening on all sites. Worst thing is videos that play in tjr corner with a close button so small I need a microscope in order to close the video ad.
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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
It's amazing to me just how fast the ocean heats and cools every year in just a couple of months. This seems obvious but seeing it on a graph like this makes it somehow seem really cool.
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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 · 12/04/2026
The thing that changed my life was learning I could use `results = asis` with a for loop to produce an analysis using every unique value in a column automatically. The amount of time this saves is insane!
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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 · 27/03/2026
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squidward from spongebob is standing in front of a door
ALT: squidward from spongebob is standing in front of a door
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 27/03/2026
Bro, I got trolled by your name and for like 30 mins I thought Bluesky admin was making political skeets 😭😭
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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 · 04/02/2026
Oh Jin 🫂 Time is a healer. Hang in there buddy
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 01/02/2026
Not all departments are listed, and departments are still coming up with number of positions to eliminate, so this more or less just a snapshot.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 01/02/2026
A cleaner version just showing numbers of employees being laid off.
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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
Side note, I did not know APOD existed prior and I will be bookmarking!! Super cool.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 20/01/2026
Made with #ggplot and #ggside. Was looking for an excuse to mess around with ggside and I feel like it fits nicely on a heat map.
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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 · 24/10/2025
I once had an interview where they asked me all questions that would have been answered by my resume. It was so strange.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 23/10/2025
Yes
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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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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 22/10/2025
Yes
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𝙹𝚒𝚗𝚝𝚛𝚒𝚜𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚒𝚜𝚝𝚞𝚜♔ @balougene.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
My backpacking itinerary
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 21/10/2025
JIN LOL
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 09/10/2025
Yeah, there are some flaws in the original dataset. The author of the data had to clean **very** messy data and there will be some issues as a result. Also, bear in mind these are all publicly submitted sightings.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 09/10/2025
Yes, I recognize the colour theme is abysmal by conventional standards but I really wanted it to be alien / UFO themed.
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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
Read more here: rpubs.com/colebaril/sp...
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RPubs - Spooktober 2025
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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
Read more here: rpubs.com/colebaril/sp...
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RPubs - Spooktober 2025
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 06/10/2025
To get this data, I scraped all store locations off their website and used {stringdist} and {tidygeocoder} to geo-tag each location to allow them to be mapped. Full scraping and cleaning script can be found here: github.com/colebaril/da...
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 06/10/2025
Spirit Halloween’s reach spans across North America, with the highest density of stores in the eastern U.S. and major metropolitan regions. Its presence thins in rural and northern areas, reflecting population distribution and retail availability.
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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 · 06/10/2025
Yes, it is my package. It is only used for plot themes and captions w/ html customization to make my life easier, so not necessary at all.
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 05/10/2025
get it girl
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Cole 🐛 @colebaril.ca · 05/10/2025
Chocolatey, nutty, caramely bars reign supreme (Reese's, Twix, Kit Kat, Snickers, etc). Although fruity assortments of candy (e.g., Skittles, Starburst) also are popular on their own. Read more here: rpubs.com/colebaril/sp...
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RPubs - Spooktober 2025
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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 · 05/10/2025
This breaks my heart. I had to say goodbye to the dog I grew up with recently. I framed it to myself as we experience sadness so they don’t have to and can rest and be pain free. You gave her the best life and she was lucky to have you. 🫂
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