Automated Advent of Code repo badges

Advent of Code The Advent of Code is an annual Advent calendar of short language-agnostic programming puzzles. This year I have been using the Advent of Code to test my knowledge of programming principles, work on algorithmic efficiency, and practice working in new (to me) languages like Julia. Since I am including my work publicly on github, I also thought it would be interesting to try to create an automated repo badge to show off how many stars I have accumulated.

December 10, 2020 Read
Custom datatable Tooltips in Shiny

Tooltips If you’ve used a web browser or a programming IDE, you’ve almost certainly come across a tooltip. While tooltips can serve to clarify information in a webpage, natively they also obscure it. These bubbles of information require a user to hover over an element to see the tooltip and get the information. A user might not be aware that this information exists or users using screen-readers might never come across this tooltip.

December 1, 2020 Read
Hypothetical Outcome Plots

The Uncertainty of Uncertainty Conveying uncertainty in data visualisations has become a growing topic in data visualisation circles in the past few years. When considering how to visualise data, one must consider who their audience is and how that audience might interpret a visualisation. In the same way writers adopt different styles of writing to convey information to different audiences, dataviz practitioners might choose color, layout, or typography to suit different audiences (e.

February 5, 2020 Read