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Calibrating and Plotting a Time Series with healthyR.ts

Published 2023-02-23 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson builds a plot:

In time series analysis, it is common to split the data into training and testing sets to evaluate the accuracy of a model. However, it is important to ensure that the model is calibrated on the training set before evaluating its performance on the testing set. The {healthyR.ts} library provides a function called calibrate_and_plot() that simplifies this process.

Click through for the function’s input parameters and an example of how to use it.

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ADX Dashboards Now Generally Available

Published 2023-02-22 by Kevin Feasel

Michal Bar provides an overview of Azure Data Explorer functionality now generally available :

Each ADX dashboard is a collection of tiles, optionally organized in pages, where each tile has an underlying query and a visual representation. Using the web UI, you can natively export Kusto Query Language (KQL) queries to a dashboard as visuals and later modify their underlying queries and visual formatting as needed. In addition to ease of data exploration, this fully integrated Azure Data Explorer dashboard experience provides improved query and visualization performance.

Read on to learn more.

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Visualizing Moving Averages in R with healthyR.ts

Published 2023-02-16 by Kevin Feasel

Steven Sanderson shows off a useful R library:

Are you interested in visualizing time series data in a clear and concise way? The R package {healthyR.ts} provides a variety of tools for time series analysis and visualization, including the ts_ma_plot() function.

The ts_ma_plot() function is designed to help you quickly and easily create moving average plots for time series data. This function takes several arguments, including the data you want to visualize, the date column from your data, the value column from your data, and the frequency of the aggregation.

Read on to learn more about this plot and see an example of it in action.

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Making Star Maps in R

Published 2023-02-15 by Kevin Feasel

Benjamin Smith builds a map:

Continuing my explorations in developing custom map art, I decided to take a detour from developing the mapBliss package to explore another type of map which is very popular in the map-art space- star and constellation maps! This initially started out as an issue opened on the mapBliss Github. However, I quickly realized the framework required for making star maps is completely different from making regular maps for custom fight paths and road trips.

Read on to learn more about the problem and what libraries are available to help in R.

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Automated Data Visualization in Python

Published 2023-02-10 by Kevin Feasel

Brendan Tierney saves some time:

Creating data visualizations in Python can be a challenge. For some it an be easy, but for most (and particularly new people to the language) they always have to search for the commands in the documentation or using some search engine. Over the past few years we have seem more and more libraries coming available to assist with many of the routine and tedious steps in most data science and machine learning projects. I’ve written previously about some data profiling libraries in Python. These are good up to a point, but additional work/code is needed to explore the data to suit your needs. One of these Python libraries, designed to make your initial work on a new data set easier is called AutoViz. It’s good to see there is continued development work on this library, which can be really help for creating initial sets of charts for all the variables in your data set, plus it has some additional features which help to make it very useful and cuts down on some of the additional code you might need to write.

This looks like it’s worth a try and could serve well as a first-glance approach to exploratory data analysis.

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How Power BI Chooses Colors for Legends

Published 2023-02-09 by Kevin Feasel

Allison Kennedy reveals a mystery of the universe:

I’ve just had a wonderful discovery about why Power BI sometimes seems to choose random colors in the legend. 

Typically, the first item in a series will match the first color of your Power BI theme, the second item in the series will match the second color of your Power BI theme, and so on. 

However, this isn’t always the case. I have noticed that sometimes when I have text category values for my legend that Power BI can assign random colors, seemingly not even part of my theme. Until recently, I just accepted this as a quirk of Power BI and carried on with my report development. 

Read on for the answer.

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Improving the Shiny UI Experience

Published 2023-01-27 by Kevin Feasel

Tim Brock talks responsiveness:

Confusingly (and rather unhelpfully) when it comes to web applications there are two different topics that may be referred to by the terms “responsive” or “responsiveness”. If you stick “responsive UI” into your favourite search engine the top results will concern “responsive design” – the practice of making websites and applications work across devices, regardless of device and browser dimensions. That’s an interesting and important topic when it comes to designing data-science applications but it’s not what we’re covering here.

What we’re covering here is responsiveness that you might stick “un” in front of if things got really bad. It’s about making your user interface feel like it responds instantaneously to a user’s interaction. We’ll go from covering clicking a button and making sure the user sees some kind of simple acknowledgement the button has been clicked to clicking a button (or dragging a slider or…) and immediately seeing the results of complex computations.

Read on to learn a few things you can do to make those apps a little more user-friendly.

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Building a Shiny App in R and Python

Published 2023-01-23 by Kevin Feasel

Nicola Rennie does a language throw-down:

Shiny is an R package that makes it easier to build interactive web apps straight from R. Back in July 2022 at rstudio::conf(2022), Posit (formerly RStudio) announced the release of Shiny for Python. As someone who knows Python but hasn’t written any Python code for quite a long time, I wanted to see how the two compared. So I did the only logical thing and built a Shiny app – twice!

After building (almost) identical Shiny apps, with one built solely in R and the other solely in Python, I’ve written this blog post to take you through some of the things that are the same, and a few things that are slightly different.

Note: at the time of writing Shiny for Python is still in alpha, so if you’re reading this blog quite a while after it was first published, some things may have changed.

The code, as you’d expect, looks quite similar. I also learned about plotnine, something I’ll need to keep in mind. H/T R-Bloggers.

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Plotly Visualizations in Azure Data Explorer

Published 2023-01-18 by Kevin Feasel

Adi Eldar improves ADX visualization:

Azure Data Explorer (ADX) supports various types of data visualizations including time, bar and scatter charts, maps, funnels and many more. The chosen visualization can be specified as part of the KQL query using ‘render’ operator, or interactively selected when building ADX dashboards. Today we extend the set of visualizations, supporting advanced interactive visualizations by Plotly graphics library. Plotly supports ~80 chart types including basic charts, scientific, statistical, financial, maps, 3D, animations and more. There are two methods for creating Plotly visuals:

Read on to learn more about those two methods.

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