Tidy Tuesday: Tornadoes

Mapping the paths of tornados in Kentucky from 1952 - 2022 with the sf packing in R and data from NOAA’s National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center Severe Weather Maps, Graphics, and Data Page

By Matthew Henderson in dataviz

May 16, 2023

Tidy Tuesday: Childcare Costs

The National Database of Childcare Prices (NDCP) is the most comprehensive federal source of childcare prices at the county level. The database offers childcare price data by childcare provider type, age of children, and county characteristics. Data are available from 2008 to 2018.

By Matthew Henderson in dataviz

May 9, 2023

Generating Examples of Maximal Room Squares in R

A partial Room square is maximal if no further pair of elements can be placed into any unoccupied cell without violating the conditions that define a partial Room square. This blog posts describes two approaches to creating maximal partial Room squares in R.

Tidy Tuesday: Adoptable Dogs

Tidy Tuesday for week fifty-one of 2019 was all about dogs available for adoption in the United States through PetFinder. The data was collected by Amber Thomas for her piece Finding Forever Homes which appeared in The Pudding in October 2019.

By Matthew Henderson in dataviz

December 17, 2019

Functional Geometry in R

This post introduces funcgeo, an R package for functional geometry, by recreating Square Limit by M. Escher following the approach of Henderson (1982).

Euler Paths

An implementation of multigraphs in Maxima and an approach to deciding whether a path in a multigraph is an Euler path or not.

Greedy Edge Colouring of Small Graphs

A NetworkX-based implementation of greedy edge-colouring for graphs in graph6 format. Using this implementation we investigate the average case performance on all non-isomorphic, connected simple graphs of at most nine vertices.

More on Moore Graphs

An implementation of a filter for Moore graphs in graph6 format in Python using the NetworkX and igraph packages