# data visualisation

## How long do maps on ggplot facets take?

If you’re a ggplot user, making faceted plots must be a tool in your belt. If you happen to do some spatial analysis, you would be familiar with maps. Today, I will show you my surprise findings about the rendering time to make faceted maps. This example comes from Chapter 7 of Paula Moraga’s book Geospatial Health Data: Modeling and Visualization with R-INLA and Shiny and I have simplified it for this demonstration.

## Hexmaps with sugarbag make it easier to see the electoral map

Australia is a land of wide open spaces where the population concentrates in small areas. It can make for misleading map visualisations on statistics related to people. The May 20, 2022 ABC article The Australian election map has been lying to you explains this very neatly. It has alsp provided a better alternative to examine election results, in the form of a hexmap of Australia. The hexmap provided in the article is almost certainly manually constructed which is find for a construct once, use many times purpose.

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## Trying to Save My Housements (Specifically Tom) from Alcohol Poisoning with Regularisation

The drinking game that killed Tom Back when I lived with my sister I barely managed to drink once a month, and health wise, I was living a good life. Unfortunately, my sister decided to get engaged and her fiance was all “its weird that we live with your hermit sister” and “you two have been co-dependent for years its unhealthy and it’s time to stop”. When I moved in with my friends at the beginning of the year I was immediately tossed in to a long strict lock down.

## A Future Public Disturbance Explains LDA

Bad Restaurants and LDA are Ruining my Life I would like to say that I’m the type of person who would never complain at a restaurant, but deep down I know I’m one bad day away from being the woman in a viral video pissing on the floor of a Starbucks because they didn’t give her soy milk. If you would like to see the correlation that makes me think this, see the figure below:

## Using PCA to Bully My Housemates (Specifically Tom)

Surrounded by Incompetence I recently moved into a share house with three of my friends, and while we generally get along pretty well, I would be lying if I said I never fantasised about burning the place down with them all in it. Today, after I woke up to the dishwasher run with less that half a load, I made this passive aggressive drawing and sent it to the group chat.