Cool Christmas Drawings with R
Every day I get a digest of new posts from R-Bloggers, a community of 555+ bloggers who are devoted to using R and sharing what they learn with others. Even though you can’t learn how to use R by reading these posts, once you’ve jumped into the world of R with an in-depth tutorial or boot camp, you can learn a ton about R’s amazing functionality by perusing the new titles from this blog every day.
For example, this tree is a fun one for Christmas. One reason that R is quickly becoming the first-choice tool for research data analysis is that it has sophisticated data visualization functionality. With a simple set of programming code it is easy to generate this holiday tree, and then save it as an image.
This market share chart was created in R
OK, not so useful, except as learning tool, right? But how about this beautiful and useful chart, which I learned how to create by stumbling upon a similar example:
The blogger shared his programming code, and I simply adapted it with new data.
Still not sure that R is the Christmas gift you’ve been waiting for? Looking for something more traditional in the world of survey and market research? Then how about this good old-fashioned phone survey, via last year’s holiday post:
Doing Research on the Night before Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
