I was watching the news the other day and heard a commotion about the new 2018 tax brackets. Something about they were late, companies are having a tough adjusting pay, and that employees should double check their pay checks. Oh, and the government will at some point share an easy estimator tool. I sighed and […]
All workshops need storage for the typical workshop junk and of course the miscellaneous overflow from the rest of the house. In converting our old garage into a workshop I noticed I had a weird bump-out that I could not use for anything but a shelving unit. Because it was 59″ x 16″ I needed […]
When I opted to convert our old garage into a workshop I was eager to finally have a real workbench. As much as I wanted a true woodworking bench with a thick solid top with nice mortise-and-tenon centered in the shop, it just wasn’t going to happen. Just too much time and money, and I […]
I figure I should start with a post on my workshop. A few years ago we added a garage onto our house which of course opened up the previously one car (barely) garage. Since my previous bench was shared with a boiler and washer and dryer, I though it was time for an upgrade. As […]
A while ago I inherited a Craftsman 315.1175 3″ belt sander and honestly didn’t have much use for it. It just sat in the corner staring at me as I sanded, filed, and sharpened things by hand. The other day I decided I had enough and built a stand for it (after disassembling and doing […]
In Part 1 we covered stacking similar and different plot types in ggplot2 and gridExtra. Unfortunately we ran into limitations that hindered us from creating a complex plot such as a pie charts overlaid on a map (which I won’t exactly cover yet, sorry). To accomplish this we need to dive into the inter-working of GrObs.
Ever want to combine multiple plots into a consistent file easily without having to open up Inkscape or GIMP? Perhaps you never thought you would need a garden of pie charts but rather: Revenue of multiple products over the fiscal year. Price (line) and volume (bar) of a stock over time. Income distribution (pie) per […]
I recently have been doing more and more data visualization. Mostly I have been leaning towards open source and web-based options (my current favorite is d3.js which primarily works with SVG elements). Charts and graphs I have had little issue with. Where I ran into problems, oddly, was with tables. This begged the question: Do we need […]
Recently I had a table such as this: ID BEGIN_DATE 2600 01-JAN-08 2600 01-FEB-08 2600 01-MAR-08 2600 01-JUL-13 3318 01-APR-08 3318 01-JUL-13 … … which signifies when a particular ID is active on a monthly basis. When it isn’t, it just does not show up. I thought it would be more concise and useful for […]
For the longest time (and before my D3 Organization Chart post) I have been looking for organization charts in my company. Some departments are outdated, some are unavailable on the intranet, some are in this format or that format. In the end I have dozens of pieces of the puzzle that still need to be fit together. […]