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LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Visual Analytical Patterns

This week I was tasked with creating a visualization with 6 variables from a given data set out of 9 available variables. The data set is originally sourced from data.gov, representing public transit in the United States which had at least 12 variables, my professor then filtered the data down…

By Simon Liles February 7, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Adding Vector Graphics with Adobe Illustrator

This week I used Adobe Illustrator to add vector graphics to the data visualization I made last week. I added labels for major locations along the coastline to label the marina hotspots on the map. I also added a key to label the different colors on the map. The original…

By Simon Liles January 31, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Data Frames in R

This week I learned more about data frames in R. For this post I was given hypothetical sample election polling data. The data was originally in vectors, so I have kept it in that way. For this assignment I created an R Script which you can find on my GitHub…

By Simon Liles January 31, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming School Work

LIS 4370 R Programming: Working with Basic Functions

This week in LIS 4370 I reviewed how to work with functions and data in R. The assignment this week calls for the testing of a given function with some sample data. All code I use in this post can be found on my GitHub which you can find here,…

By Simon Liles January 22, 2021LIS 4370 R Programming, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Working with Geographic Data

As a sailor cruising up and down the coast, it is good to know where to expect services. Unfortunately it is not easy to find things like marinas or services on the charts. Unlike a road trip, planning where to go during the cruising season requires some knowledge of where…

By Simon Liles January 21, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization School Work

LIS 4317 Data Visualization: Visual Analytics That Caught my Eye

The first visual analytics that caught my eyes in recent weeks is this graph in this medium article. Figure 1: A Network graph showing links between Facebook groups in discussion about COVID-19 Vaccines. This visual appealed to me first because of the data. There are thousands of entities being represented…

By Simon Liles January 14, 2021LIS 4317 Data Visualization, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Final Project: Increasing Precision of Earthquake Monitoring Data

Despite being an everyday occurrence for some parts of the world, earthquakes can be highly destructive forces, and even more so in coastal areas due to the additional risk of tsunami. While the time is still unpredictable, the size of the wave can be predicted as soon as the magnitude…

By Simon Liles December 10, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 12 Time Series

This week I work with Time Series objects in R and make use of Holt-Winters Forecasting and exponential smoothing to find the trend in seemingly random data. For this I created an R script which you can find on my GitHub here, or with the link at the bottom of…

By Simon Liles November 13, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 11 Chi Square Tests and Visualization in R

In this post I go over data analysis using chi-tests and data visualization techniques. For the R code I use, you can find it on my GitHub here, or follow the link at the bottom. The following table is real data collected from a hotel quest satisfaction study. The hotels…

By Simon Liles November 9, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics School Work

LIS 4273 Adv Statistics: Module 10 ANOVA Testing

This week focused on Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) testing, which is a test that can be used for data with 2 or more groups and can reduce Type I errors. To perform the analysis in this post I wrote an R script to speed up the process. The code is…

By Simon Liles November 1, 2020LIS 4273 Adv Statistics, School Work