Kim Fitter

Curious about data and all types of visualisations. Based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Excel to Interactive Census Map

I have been experimenting with spatial data and looking at ways to combine data objects to get different views and perspectives. This post has the following objectives: Import and load data direct to R without manually saving files to a local directory, so that the end to end process is reproducible. Use vectors to efficiently clean the Excel sheet, reducing manual steps where possible so that the process could be leveraged to clean other Excel sheets in the Census data.

Simple Blockchain Example in R

This R markdown post was inspired by the R-bloggers post Building your own blockchain in R. Blockchain technology, types such as bitcoin and ethereum and its associated terminology are ubiquitous in the media at the moment. The objective here is to learn how a generic blockchain works and understand some of the terminology through implementing a simple example. This generic example could then extended to various types of blockchains such as distributed ledgers, smart contracts or cryptocurrencies with network servers and appropriate privacy and security settings.

Hello Blog

Welcome to my personal blog and portfolio of my data science journey. Until now I have been creating and publishing R code to github and HTML to RPubs. I also have a Wordpress professional website to reach out to both technical and non-technical audiences with summaries of projects. I realised I needed another more personalised medium to publish the detailed code and HTML from projects so I created this blog.

Creating A Website In Hugo Creative Portfolio Theme

There are a many tutorials and the great bookdown blogdown: Creating Websites with R Markdown with detailed steps on how to create a website using blogdown and Hugo. I used the fantastic tutorial by Tyler Clavelle to create this blog. This website uses the blogdown R package and static site generator Hugo. I chose to use the Hugo creative portfolio theme, with side bar and tiles layout. I use Windows and GitHub repo to deploy the website.

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