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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Happy to have my tutorial recreating a NYTimes graph in R posted on the R Graph Gallery! r-graph-gallery.com/web-divergin...

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Diverging Barplot with R and ggplot2

How to build a diverging barplot by recreating the chart from NY Times using R.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

New #rsats video! This is another Copy the Pros where I recreate a NYTimes chart in R. Copy the Pros: Recreate a NYTimes Chart in R youtu.be/XihJUrDXq6s

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Copy the Pros: Recreate a NYTimes Chart in R

YouTube video by Spencer Schien

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

What’s the opposite of Edward R Murrow’s “Good night, and good luck”, you ask? I give you me signing off of a chart tutorial. #RStats

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I have a #rstats #Positron question: anyone run into issues with auto-indentation, and did you fix it? Here’s a video example of the issue, I want it to work in Positron like it does in RStudio! I’m sure I’m missing something.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I would love an #rstats function that copies a dataframe to a clipboard in a table format that I can drop in an email or chat. Anyone have tips here? I found how to copy in a delimited format, but it wasn’t coming through in a table.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

To me, when I write it I’m thinking: okay, starting with df1, and I’m augmenting with df2. Starting with the data and layering operations is more intuitive to me.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

So far it looks like people prefer the first approach but suspect it’s not best practice. I definitely prefer the first but asked because I thought it would be in the minority! #rstats

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Stirring the pot this morning: #rstats crowd, which do you prefer? df3 <- df1 |> left_join(df2) OR df3 <- left_join(df1, df2)

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Arizona Population Density Is #rstats a thing on here? This was made with R.

Population density map of Arizona, rendered in 3d with R using the Rayshader package.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

My inspiration for this map was a combination of ice and stars. Ice because, Alaska is way north, but also the reflective quality highlights the sparse population. Stars because the sparse population centers look a bit like stars in the sky, and as a reference to Alaska's flag.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

How does that 14% compare to the rest of the US? Alaska has more National Park land than the rest of the US, combined.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Among that surfeit of unpopulated land is a large amount of National Park land. About 14% of land in Alaska is managed by the National Park Service.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

While there isn't much population, there's a lot of land. In fact, Alaska's land area is about equal to that of these 12 states.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

There are just a handful of identifiable population centers. Top 3 most populous cities are visible: Anchorage, Fairbanks, and Juneau.

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Chapter 2: Alaska Population Density Or, what population density?

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Spencer Schien @mrpecners.bsky.social · 03/09/2024

Just started a new project to compile state population density maps in a book format. Check out my first chapter on Alabama: pecners.github.io/state_popula...

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