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taylor 4.0.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

Sequins are forever…

February 13, 2026
Jake Thompson

What to expect from The Life of a Showgirl

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

A quick look at Taylor’s previous collaborations with Max Martin and Shellback.

September 13, 2025
Jake Thompson

taylor 3.2.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

The end of the The Eras era.

January 13, 2025
Jake Thompson

taylor 3.1.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

The chairman has cordially invited us to The Tortured Poets Department.

May 9, 2024
Jake Thompson

measr 1.0.0

R
package
measr
dcm
Stan

A major release to reflect development milestones.

February 5, 2024
Jake Thompson

taylor 3.0.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

taylor 3.0.0 is a major release to include data from 1989 (Taylor’s Version) and Speak Now (Taylor’s Version).

November 9, 2023
Jake Thompson

measr 0.3.1

R
package
measr
dcm
Stan

measr 0.3.1 is a minor release focusing on expanding the set of models that can be estimated.

June 6, 2023
Jake Thompson

measr 0.2.1

R
package
measr
dcm
Stan

Initial release of measr package for estimating and evaluating diagnostic classification models.

April 10, 2023
Jake Thompson

taylor 2.0.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

taylor 2.0.0 is a major release to include data from Midnights.

November 13, 2022
Jake Thompson

taylor 1.0.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

taylor 1.0.0 is a major release including data from Red (Taylor’s Version).

December 17, 2021
Jake Thompson

Creating ggplot2 fill and color scales

R
package
taylor
ggplot2
Taylor Swift

Learn to create custom fill and color scales for ggplot2 to make your plots “Gorgeous.”

November 11, 2021
Jake Thompson

Evaluating 2020 election forecasts

R
politics

Take a look back on the 2020 election forecasts.

November 7, 2021
Jake Thompson

Creating a custom color palette class with vctrs

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

We’re in screaming color! Learn how the custom color palette methods for taylor were made using vctrs.

October 16, 2021
Jake Thompson

taylor 0.2.0

R
package
taylor
Taylor Swift

Initial release of taylor for accessing data on Taylor Swift’s discography.

September 1, 2021
Jake Thompson

Making your own ggclock

R
ggplot2
tidyverse

Make yourself a ggplot2-themed clock using ggplot2!

November 27, 2018
Jake Thompson

Making an animated contour plot

R
ggplot2
gganimate
tidyverse

Recreate contour plots using ggplot2 and gganimate.

September 5, 2018
Jake Thompson

Animated TIE fighter

R
ggplot2
gganimate

May the fourth be with you!

May 4, 2018
Jake Thompson

Using rtweet to create a tidyverse twitterbot

R
tidyverse
rtweet

See the inner workings of a Twitter bot that sends out new tidyverse questions.

December 11, 2017
Jake Thompson

Creating an EM:IP cover graphic using ggplot2

R
psychometrics
irt
ggplot2

Use ggplot2 to visualize multidimensional item response theory models.

December 6, 2017
Jake Thompson

Tidy sports analytics, part 4: tidyverse

R
sports
tidyverse

In our concluding entry, we reflect on the tidyverse and look at resources for future learning.

August 25, 2017
Jake Thompson

Tidy sports analytics, part 3: ggplot2

R
sports
ggplot2
tidyverse

Learn how to use ggplot2 for visualizing our NFL data.

July 20, 2017
Jake Thompson

Tidy sports analytics, part 2: tidyr

R
sports
tidyr
tidyverse

Learn how to use tidyr for making tidy data frames as we continue our exploration of NFL data.

June 25, 2017
Jake Thompson

Tidy sports analytics, part 1: dplyr

R
sports
dplyr
tidyverse

Learn how to use dplyr for data manipulation as we explore NFL data.

June 9, 2017
Jake Thompson

Integrating blogdown with GitHub pages and Travis-CI

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blogdown
gh-pages
travis-ci

Get up and running with automated builds for your blogdown website.

May 31, 2017
Jake Thompson

Recreating the datasaurus dozen using tweenr and ggplot2

R
ggplot2
gganimate

A lesson in the importance of visualizing your data, and an opportunity to play with gganimate.

May 5, 2017
Jake Thompson

Previewing the 2017 men’s NCAA basketball tournament

R
sports

Who got the toughest draw, and who is the best bet to cut down the nets?

March 13, 2017
Jake Thompson

Predicting the winner of the 2017 Big 12/SEC Challenge

R
sports
ggplot2

Which conference is most likely to come out on top?

January 27, 2017
Jake Thompson

Making win probability plots with ggplot2

R
sports
ggplot2

Calculate the win probability for college basketball games, and then make a plot.

January 11, 2017
Jake Thompson

Evaluating election forecasts

R
politics

Let’s look at how the forecasters did for the 2016 Presidential election.

November 8, 2016
Jake Thompson
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