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Cole 🐛
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📈 Data Analyst | #RStats Programmer 👨‍💻
🦋 MSc | Medical Entomology 🦟
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Did anyone else get absolutely destroyed by this year’s COVID/Flu vaccines?
October 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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I feel bad that I randomly stopped my series. I got sick and then life happened :(
October 22, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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We need this asap
hadley.nz Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 21d
How about yeet() ?
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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My backpacking itinerary
October 21, 2025 at 10:33 AM
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👽🛸 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 8

Today is part one of a multi-part segment on a UFO sighting dataset.

For part 1, I created an interactive Shiny app to explore the data. Map points are clickable!

colewb.shinyapps.io/alien-atlas/

#DataViz #R #Shiny #ggplot2 #RStats #Alien #UFO
👽 Alien Atlas: UFO Sightings Map
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October 9, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 7

Today's plot shows inflation adjusted U.S. Halloween spending across 4 categories from 2005 to 2025 (2025 anticipated).

#Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #Retail #Halloween
October 8, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 6

Spirit Halloween stores seem to pop up almost everywhere out of nowhere. I wanted to see just how ubiquitous these temporary shops are across North America.

#Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #SpiritHalloween #Retail #Halloween
A map of North America showing the distribution of Spirit Halloween stores using purple circles sized by store count. The highest concentrations appear along the eastern United States, particularly around the Great Lakes, the Northeast, and the southeastern states. Dense clusters also appear around major U.S. cities such as Los Angeles, Dallas, and Chicago, while western Canada has smaller clusters near Vancouver, Calgary, and Edmonton. Northern Canada, the northern U.S. plains, and remote regions show few or no stores. The map highlights how Spirit Halloween stores are most common in densely populated urban and suburban areas.
October 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 5

Want to know which Halloween candy is most popular? Look no further. This Halloween candy constellation plot shows which candy traits are the most popular together.

#Spooktober #DataViz #R #ggplot2 #RStats #Tidyverse #HalloweenCandy #Candy #TrickOrTreat
October 5, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 4

Today, I looked into U.S. pumpkin production. Illinois dominates in the U.S. due to its ideal soil type and favourable conditions for pumpkin growing.

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Pumpkins #Pumpkin
October 4, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Almost non-stop lightning—in October.

#mbwx #mbstorm
October 4, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 3

Today, I looked at the number of haunted places in each U.S. state. CA and TX have the highest number of haunted places. Does this have something to do with population...?

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #Hauntings #HauntedHouse
Choropleth map of the United States shaded by the number of haunted places. Darker purple indicates more haunted sites. California, Texas, and Pennsylvania show the darkest shades with the most hauntings, while many western and plains states are lighter with fewer. A ghost icon is placed over the northwest and a bat hangs upside down in the southeast corner.
October 3, 2025 at 4:58 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵

Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released.

Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases.

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A heatmap titled Calendar of Creeps: Horror Releases by Month. The x-axis shows months (January–December), and the y-axis shows years (1980–2022). Each cell’s color represents the number of horror movies released that month, with darker orange meaning more releases. The chart shows a clear peak in October, especially after 2000, and a second, surprising cluster of releases in January.
October 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 2

Continuing off yesterday's theme of horror movies, for today's graphic I made a word cloud from >32K horror movie titles using the tidytext and wordcloud2 packages.

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A word cloud created from >32K horror movie titles using R’s tidytext and wordcloud2 packages. Words are arranged in an oval shape on a black background, sized by frequency and colored in red, orange, and yellow. The largest words include “dead,” “night,” “house,” “blood,” “ghost,” “death,” “vampire,” and “zombie,” with smaller related words like “killer,” “curse,” “terror,” “hell,” “monster,” and “massacre.”
October 2, 2025 at 3:57 AM
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🎃👻 Spooktober: Data After Dark - October 1 🧵

Kicking off this spooky data series by looking at when horror movies are released.

Unsurprisingly, October dominates! From the 2000s onward, October became the clear peak for horror releases.

#Spooktober #DataViz #RStats #Tidyverse #HorrorMovies
A heatmap titled Calendar of Creeps: Horror Releases by Month. The x-axis shows months (January–December), and the y-axis shows years (1980–2022). Each cell’s color represents the number of horror movies released that month, with darker orange meaning more releases. The chart shows a clear peak in October, especially after 2000, and a second, surprising cluster of releases in January.
October 1, 2025 at 4:34 AM
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Starting October 1! I have been a busy beaver curating spooky datasets!

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse
Illustration for ‘Spooktober: Data After Dark’ featuring cute cartoon ghosts, flying bats, carved pumpkins, and colorful Tidyverse package logos scattered across a purple background, creating a playful Halloween and data science theme.
September 26, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Google: here's an AI summary!
Adobe: want an AI assistant?
Zoom: get more done with an AI companion!
Outlook: don't you want to turn on copilot??

Me: I trained for 10 years to think. I like thinking. Please just let me think.
September 24, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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👻 Spooktober is around the corner! 🎃 This October, I’ll be posting a daily spooky-themed data viz created entirely in R/ggplot2. From horror movie heatmaps to haunted word clouds, expect a full month of creepy charts!

Stay tuned & watch this space… 🕸️

#RStats #ggplot2 #DataViz #R #Tidyverse
September 25, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats
ggplot2 4.0.0
A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.
www.tidyverse.org
September 11, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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Skipped ahead to next week's (2025-09-02) #tidytuesday because I love frogs.

#r4ds
#datavisualization
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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I spotted an Aedes vexans mosquito in my bathroom waving her hind legs back and forth. They do this when threatened to evaluate their environment and air currents.
August 23, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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#TidyTuesday Week 32, 2025 - Extreme Weather Attribution Studies 📊

It's almost like there's a connection between extreme weather events and climate change...
August 21, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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I made a triple layer carrot cake for my grandma’s 82nd birthday!

#bakingsky #baking
July 27, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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July 27, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Black swallowtail (Papilio polyxenes), north of Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana. #biodiversity #mothweek
July 23, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Maybe
July 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM