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Matt Kerlogue

@matt.kerlogue.co.uk

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Freelance data/numbers/pretty charts, typically in #rstats. He/him, alphabet mafia type 🏳️‍🌈, SE London. github.com/mattkerlogue matt.kerlogue.co.uk

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 11/09/2026

Great advertising here on @theguardian.com, nicely reminding one just how much the "AI in absolutely everything" trend is enshittifying the world.

Screenshot of an article on The Guardian… largely hidden by oversized ads for "Microsoft Excel with Copilot" (screenshot 1 of 2)

Screenshot of an article on The Guardian… largely hidden by oversized ads for "Microsoft Excel with Copilot" (screenshot 2 of 2)

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 26/08/2026

Seems rather serendipitous that this week’s #tidytuesday topic is on country music given the passing of Dolly Parton yesterday. Also seems somewhat apt that her home state of Tennessee was the most mentioned state in top 30 country music songs.

A map of the contiguous US states highlighting those that were mentioned in songs in the Billboard Country Airplay Top 30 between 2014 and 2019, based on data collated and published by Grady Smith on YouTube. 16 states in total were mentioned in 67 songs. Tennessee was mentioned in 13 songs, California in 10 songs, Alabama and Georgia were mentioned in 8 songs each, and Colorado was mentioned in 5 songs. 5 songs mentioned Carolina but none qualified whether they were talking about North or South Carolina.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 29/06/2026

Oh no, scratch that, I forgot discrete scales do actually get their unique values sorted but into alphabetical order. But if you had say `c(1, 2, 4, 8, 16)` it would be five equal steps along the ramp rather than each being double the last distance and 16 would come after 1.

Scatter chart showing effect of discrete ggplot colour scale on the set of integer values 1, 2, 4, 8, 16. The values are ordered 1, 16, 2, 4, 8 and the values are mapped evenly along the viridis colour ramp with 1 being purple, 16 mid-blue, 2 teal, 4 lime green and 8 being yellow.

Scatter chart showing effect of a continuous ggplot colour scale on the set of integer values 1, 2, 4, 8, 16. Colours are mapped along the viridis colour ramp with 1 being deep purple and 16 being yellow, 2 and 4 are also hues of purple, while 8 is teal.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 13/06/2026

“For services to Statistic”…. Yeah, but which statistic?

Screenshot from the King’s Birthday Honours List 2026 announcing a Damehood for Professor Shiela Macdonald Bird. The reason given is “For services to Statistic”.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 09/02/2026

I have somehow ended up in the "Fantasy Premier League Community" cluster… which its very funny given that as very much a non-footballer/fan for many years I resisted the requests of my boss to join the work FPL group and make pics based solely on the stats.

A screenshot of my location in the map of Bluesky users by @theo.io.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 29/01/2026

I don't know what possessed me to make this, but I did..

A chart showing how ludicrous the poll results are once the sample size and confidence intervals are taking into account.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 20/12/2025

Seems like an issue with the survey theme stylesheet. I hooked up my iPhone to my MacBook to get the live web inspector and it seems the media query in the stylesheet is being ignored. Firefox on iOS also had the same issue (which isn't surprising as everything on iOS is all webkit)

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 19/12/2025

Maybe it’s just me, but FYI the margins/padding on mobile make it almost unusable (iPhone XS, iOS 18 Safari if it’s useful)

Screen shot of the DS Hangout survey monkey.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 11/12/2025

A few years back the last time there was a big storm over one of his arbitrary archiving decisions that affected loads of packages I sent this to a friend.

Meme adapted from a still of Alien 3 of the Xenomorph and Ellen Ripley, but with Ellen labelled as R package developers and the Xenomorph as Professor Ripley.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 29/05/2025

This image is my rough understanding of how quarto generates/structures its HTML output.

Approximation of how Quarto (http://quarto.org) generates HTML: quarto-generated head content, header include, before-body include, quarto-generated body content (navigation, sidebar, title, body content, pagination, margin, footer), after-body-include.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 23/04/2025

"Llamas are liars"... ah yes, I'm always using that common retort: "You know, you're a real llama, always lying to me"

According to Google AI overview: The saying "llamas are liars" is an informal expression, typically used humorously or to highlight an individual's tendency to be deceitful. It's not a literal statement about llamas themselves, but rather a metaphor that plays on the word "llama," which is a native South American animal.

Google AI overview also provides an example: You might say, "You know, you're a real llama, always lying to me!" as a playful way of calling someone out for their deceitful behavior, but it doesn't mean you believe they literally resemble a llama.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 23/04/2025

"Llamas can't tell the truth" apparently means that somebody is being "exceptionally honest"

According to Google's AI overview: The saying "llamas can't tell the truth" is a humorous idiom, implying that llamas are known for their honesty and straightforward nature. It's not meant to be taken literally, as llamas, being animals, cannot speak or lie in the human sense. The phrase is used to describe someone who is exceptionally honest, perhaps even to a fault, similar to how llamas are perceived as being trustworthy and genuine.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 08/04/2025

mtcars |> skimr::skim() |> skimr::focus(n_missing, numeric.mean, numeric.p0, numeric.p100, numeric.hist) |> knitr::kable(digits = 2)

Output of the #rstats code to summarise a data.frame with the {skimr} package and convert to markdown table format using the kable function from the {knitr} package.

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Matt Kerlogue @matt.kerlogue.co.uk · 02/02/2025

Something like this (from education.economist.com/insights/int...)

A chart from The Economist showing variation in the proportion of households with children and dogs by city. The two categories are show as different coloured points, the different between the two is shown as a bar.

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