I’d been curious about generalised additive (mixed) models for some time, and the opportunity to learn more about them finally presented itself when a new project came my way, as part of my work at The Data Lab. The aim of this project was to understand the pattern of visitors recorded at two historic sites […]
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An R-based App for Exploring Traffic Accidents in Scotland
Recently I discovered that the UK government collects detailed information about traffic accidents across the country that are being reported to the police. What’s even more interesting is that all these data are being uploaded and made publicly available on the government’s open data website. This dataset, being so rich, immediately caught my attention. I […]
Exploring transport routes, journey characteristics and postcode networks using R Shiny
Hi all, Recently I’ve finished work on a project intended to visualise the traffic flow within a subsidised transport service, operated by a Scottish council. This visualisation needed to display variations in traffic flow conditional on factors such as the time of day, day of the week, journey purpose, as well as other criteria. The […]
Running R remotely: some options and tips
Why would you need to do this? Say, for instance, you are dealing with sensitive data that should not leave a specific system, or quite simply that you are away on a work retreat – but your laptop is far less powerful than your work desktop computer which you left behind – so you want […]