Is it cheaper to fill up your gas tank in the evening? Many car drivers have their own theories and myths about refuelling. Our colleague Jakob tackled 6 of these myths using statistics in his latest blog post.
Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue, Statistics Can Be Romantic Too!
It’s Valentine’s day, making this the most romantic time of the year. But actually, already 2018 was a year full of love here at STATWORX: many of my STATWORX colleagues got engaged. And so we began to wonder – some fearful, some hopeful – who will be next? Therefore, today we’re going to tackle this question in the only true way: with data science!
Plotly – An interactive Charting library
In this blog we will explore the plotly library for python and R. We show how plotly is structured and use the LA Metro Bike dataset as an example to create interactive plots.
Dreaming of a white Christmas – with ggmap in R
With the holidays approaching, one of the most discussed questions at STATWORX was whether we’ll have a white Christmas or not. And what better way to get our hopes up, than by taking a look at the DWD Climate Data Center’s historic data on the snow depth on the past ten Christmas Eves? But how to best visualize spatial data? …
Open Workshop: Data Visualization in R and ggplot2, November 8th in Frankfurt
The first time we at STATWORX are opening our doors for anyone who wants to learn more about data. Our “Data Visualization in R and ggplot2” workshop is designed for R-beginners and provides the perfect mixture between theory and practice. The workshop will be held in german at our office in Frankfurt. Participants achieve first insights into the concepts of …
Custom themes in ggplot2
In the last post of this series of the STATWORX Blog, we explored ggplot2's themes, which control the display of all non-data components of a plot. Ggplot comes with several inbuilt themes that can be easily applied to any plot. However, one can tweak these out-of-the-box styles using the theme() function. We did this last time. Furthermore, one also can …
An R package to create NEWS.md files
A while back, I started to create an R package that would help me and my collegues at STATWORX with our daily work. After writing the DESCRIPTION file, I did not want to do this ever again. I found the desc package which let's you parse, manipulate and reformat this file via some functions and ergo a script. If you …
Various Versions of R and Python Logos
Since a couple of months, I am working for STATWORX as a marketing manager (and I love it). My colleagues asked me many times, if it is possible to do a logo of R or Python, in different colors with transparent background, so the logo fits perfectly in their presentations. Here, I proudly present the result of my work (Download …
Comparing predictions: World Cup scores
As many others too, me and some colleagues at STATWORX took part in a little betting game for the World Cup 2018. Since the group stage is over, I was wondering how well – or better – how worse my prediction was. I am comparing my result with other predictions by using the point system of the betting game. All …
Customizing time and date scales in ggplot2
In the last post of this series we dealt with axis systems. In this post we are also dealing with axes but this time we are taking a look at the position scales of dates, time and datetimes. Since we at STATWORX are often forecasting – and thus plotting – time series, this is an important issue for us. The …