Derek Sollberger @dsollberger@qoto.org

Granted, I didn't do much R programming before the tidyverse, but nevertheless here is a quick meme

Counties in the continental United States whose names are of Native American origin
#MapPromptMonday (theme: heatmap)

R code and notes: https://github.com/dsollberger/mappromtmonday/blob/main/20230109.qmd

image alt text: The states with a decent representation of counties whose names are of Native American origin include New York, Michigan, Arizona, and the western states. There is a surprising lack (in my opinion) in Texas, Tennessee, Montana, Wyoming, and the Dakotas.

Due to the size and proximity of the highlighted counties, the heatmap emphasizes regions between and including New York to Michigan, along with Mississippi.

I was learning some sports data viz, and then I quickly adapted the following image of basketball shot data for my first foray into #MapPromptMonday (theme: "regions")

image alt text: ggplot of a half of a basketball court. The data is about player Kevin Durant, from the 2016 to 2017 season, and is grouped by "shot type": dunk, lay up, or shot.

The dunks took place very close to the basket, while lay ups happened in a range that was still close to the basket, but not necessarily as close as dunks.

For the rest of the shots, they are spread out, but with an obvious arc where the three-point shot opportunities are.

Surprisingly, some of the shots are credited to locations slightly out-of-bounds.

New year, new farm!

TIL that in LaTeX one can simply put all \usepackage{...} and other preamble customization in a separate file, and then load that file elsewhere!

* just read the chapter about memes
* can now give a seminar on the History of Memes
* just to be "Ok, boomer'ed" by the audience

Join me as we double check all of our i's and j's in matrix searches for solving Day 8 of #AdventOfCode "Treetop Tree House"

R code: https://github.com/dsollberger/adventofcode/blob/main/2022/20221208.qmd

video: https://youtu.be/IVuVJuUc9Mw

solved Day 5 of #AdventOfCode "Supply Stacks". In this video, I show you how to set up a data structure in a sloppy way, but my Part 1 code was robust enough to solve Part 2 in a minute!

code: https://github.com/dsollberger/adventofcode/blob/main/2022/20221205.qmd

video: https://youtu.be/FBlJeOZx5XA

California Unroll

• forest: nori
• urban: salmon roe
• desert: fried onions
• land borders: imitation crab
• Central Valley: edamame

#30DayMapChallenge Day 17: A map made without a computer