I really struggled with this one. I looked at the 5 countries with the most generous paid parental leave in 2024 to see how leave duration has changed over the course of this data set. The amounts have shifted — in both directions — more than I expected. #TidyTuesday #rstats #dataviz

This week’s #TidyTuesday (2026/05/26) is tracking electricity access by country using the SE4ALL dataset. Morocco topped the list of biggest gains, going from ~67% to nearly 100% over two decades. #rstats #dataviz

Day 12 of #30DayChartChallenge: Reporters without borders. Unpolished, but it still tells a story. Five years of global press freedom rankings. Norway never moves. The Netherlands went from 28th to 2nd. #rstats #dataviz

Day 11 of #30DayChartChallenge: Physical 🏈 NFL players are getting heavier. But the most interesting line on this chart isn’t the biggest one. Offensive linemen have always been the heaviest players at the combine, but defensive linemen have closed the gap since 2000. #Rstats #DataViz

Day 10 of #30DayChartChallenge: Pop culture 🎭 Every Disney princess leaves their mark on the baby name records. Six princesses. Six spikes. Even names that were already in use get a boost from the movies. #rstats #DataViz

Day 9 of #30DayChartChallenge: Wealth. Back to baseball data for this one. MLB salaries on a log scale, one decade per row, 1985 to 2016. The red line (median) creeps forward. The blue line (99th percentile) runs away from it. #rstats #dataviz

Day 8 of #30DayChartChallenge: Circular. Continuing the USGS earthquake theme – a circular histogram of Cascadia Subduction Zone M2.5+ quakes binned by local hour of day (Pacific time). #rstats #dataviz

Day 7 of #30DayChartChallenge: Multiscale. Looking at earthquake activity worldwide and at a regional scale. Different stories at different scales. Made with #rstats + USGS. #dataviz

Day 5 of #30DayChartChallenge: Experimental — first time making a beeswarm! The big HR hitters get the attention, but the interesting story is the floor rising. Mean HR for a qualified batter: 12.4 in the 1980s → 17.1 in the 2020s. Everybody’s swinging for the fences. #rstats #dataviz

Sticking with the same general dataset across multiple charts is helping me stay on track with the #30DayChartChallenge. The Royals had the biggest turnaround in MLB from 2023 → 2024. The Marlins had the biggest fall. Day 4 : Slope — all 30 teams, two seasons, one line each. #rstats #dataviz

It’s baseball season, and someone told me there are no lefty catchers in MLB. So I dug into the Lahman database for #30DayChartChallenge Day 3 (Mosaic) — sure enough, catchers are the most right-handed position in the game. #rstats #dataviz

For Day 2 of #30DayChartChallenge (Pictogram), I kept digging into the Lahman baseball database in R. Each ⭐ = one World Series title since 2000, gold for AL, blue for NL. #rstats #dataviz

#30DayChartChallenge Day 1 Triples are hard to come by… Here’s the distribution of MLB hits, by type in 2025. Made with data from the Lahmen package. #rstats

Day 14 of #30DayMapChallenge: OpenStreetMap 🗺️ I haven’t really explored OSM data before, but the level of detail in my area of interest was great. Here’s a quick map of places you can sit and read at the park. Built with #rstats and ggplot2 📍

I wanted more practice using OpenStreetMap data. Here is a hexagonal map of dining places in New York State, made in #rstats using OSM point-of-interest data. #30DayMapChallenge Day 10: Minimal Maps. #gis

#30DayMapChallenge Day 2: Lines. I wanted to make a quick map of my summer vacation using #rstats. I couldn’t get the arrows to display correctly, so that is still a work in progress. GitHub: https://github.com/mhegeman/30DayMapChallenge_2025

Trying to catch up on the #30DayMapChallenge Day 1: Points. Since it is almost ski season in the Northern Hemisphere, I wanted to find the top 10 ski resorts with the most significant vertical drop within 100 miles of Boston. I used data from openskimap.org and made the map in R using Leaflet.

Trying to get back into the #tidytuesday habit. Using visa data from the Henley Passport Index (2025-09-09) to see where I can go without a visa.

#tidytuesday I am a bit late on this, but the show is really all about Homer. Speaking lines by character for seasons 21-26.

I learned how to ski a few years ago and like to keep track of where I have been. I am super excited to have found openskimap.org; so much map data is available! Now that I'm back from holiday break and have been looking for a new map project to start, I think some sort of ski map could be fun.

Fell a bit off the #AdventOfCode wagon, but trying to get back at it. I work almost exclusively with dataframes as inputs, this reminds me that there are other data structures. Completed “Print Queue” - Day 5 adventofcode.com/2024/day/… GitHub: github.com/mhegeman/…

Just completed “Ceres Search” Day 4 of Advent of Code 2024. Part 1 was a breeze, boosting my confidence, but Part 2 fixed that. As usual, I was overthinking it. #Python #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/… Github: github.com/mhegeman/…

So, today, I learned about regex, which is not something that I have used before. I just completed “Mull It Over” - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/… #Python

I just completed “Red-Nosed Reports” - Day 2 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode I will eventually share answers on Github, but does anyone have a favorite resource to help with Python when you are coming from R? Ihttps://adventofcode.com/2024/day/2

Because I am a glutton for punishment, I’ve decided to give #AdventOfCode a try to practice my Python skills. I’ve completed “Historian Hysteria” - Day 1 - adventofcode.com/2024/day/…

The #30DayMapChallenge has wrapped up. I didn't complete every map, but I pushed my skills with mapping in #rstats and open-source #gis tools out of my comfort zone. My final map features shelters in Antarctica using a polar projection 😊 https://www.mel-likes-maps.com/2024/12/01/polar-mapping.html

Catching up on the #30DayMapChallenge, so I’ll cover AI only (Day 9) and Map Projections (Day 26) with one set of maps. I used Claude.ai to write an R script to show different map projections - no edits from me! The results are a mixed bag! #gis Full post: www.mel-likes-maps.com/2024/11/25/a...

I missed the polygon map from the #30DayMapChallenge, so I am circling back to find counties with campgrounds. Continuing to experiment with #duckdb and #rstats to query and present spatial data: https://mel-likes-maps.micro.blog/2024/11/24/spatial-queries-with.html

#30DayMapChallenge Day 13: A new tool. I finally took the leap and experimented with DuckDB to create and access spatial data from #rstats. #gis #duckdb mel-likes-maps.micro.blog/2024/11/1…

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