Projects
{webpea}
R package, experimental
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Enables R users to easily export / save plots in the WebP image file format.
Key features:
- Output plots as WebP
- Significant file size reduction
- Use as drop-in replacement for {ggplot}’s ggsave()
{namedropR}
R package, available on CRAN
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Enables R users to convert a bibliography into a collection of legible, well formatted banners to cite scientific literature on conference slides and posters.
Key features:
- Output as PNG or HTML object
- QR code to make citation scannable
- Predefined styles and individual adjustments
30 Day Chart Challenge
2022 edition
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A data visualization community-challenge. Each day in April has a new prompt for a visualization from five different categories: Comparisons, Distributions, Relationships, Timeseries, Uncertainties.
I contributed 20 visualizations, learned new technologies and enjoyed the great contributions of the many other participants.
Bundestag-Series
A collection of posts analysing open data of the German National Parliament
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The German National Parliament, the “Bundestag”, provides open datasets, that contain information on elected representatives over time and data on public votes.
In this series I analyse several aspects of the Bundestag, ranging from age and gender distribution over the decades to a network analysis of parliamentarians according to their voting behavior.