Electoral lists in Austria contain details on candidates' profession. How many of the candidates are actually 'politicians by profession' and where are they on the electoral lists. A short blogpost on the recent #EuropeanElections2024, how to pertaining get the data and analyze it.

https://werk.statt.codes/posts/2024-06-26-euparl-2024-ballot/

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Wrote an #rstats blog post about speeches in the lower chamber of the Austrian Parliament, and how MPs respect their time limits.

Turns out the radical right isn't particularly good in respecting time limits.

https://werk.statt.codes/posts/2024-06-11-parliament-speech-length-limits/

#rstats #ggplot2 3.5 will have the theme option "legend.location" which aligns legends to the panel or the plot as a whole.
No more fiddling with x and y values.

Kudos to @teunbrand

VS Code Nov release brings floating editor windows 😍

#vscode

Question to #rstats enthusiasts: How are you dealing with NAs when using #str_detect?

str_detect(NA, regex("hello")) results in NA. This is expected behavior and I think I get the reasoning behind it.

In 99 % of my usecases though, I would like to have a FALSE as a result. Hence I need everytime an additional step to convert NAs to FALSE. I find this combersome.

I was wondering how others are dealing with such cases. Sometimes I think a pertaining option in #stringr would be nice....

#rstats #TidyTuesday 2023-37

Had a look at how much time across the globe is spent on child care. Central American countries leading, only to be topped by... Ireland.

Code: https://github.com/werkstattcodes/tidytuesday/tree/master/2023-09-12_human_day

Challenge was to combine beeswarm and maps in on plot.

Credit goes to this SO answer:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66409781/how-to-plot-a-zoom-of-the-plot-inside-the-same-plot-area-using-ggplot2/76181262#76181262:~:text=You%20can%20use%20a%20custom%20annotation

Better late than never, here’s my first submission to #rstats #tidytuesday.

Special mention goes to the facet_wrap2 function of the ggh4x package which allows you to easily format individual facets.

Code: https://github.com/werkstattcodes/tidytuesday/blob/master/2023-09-05_union_membership/2023-09-05_unions.qmd

Just realized that the new, 2nd edition of the "R Packages" book by @hadleywickham and @jennybryan is already on sale!! 😀

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/r-packages-2nd/9781098134938/

The free online version is located at
https://r-pkgs.org/

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I wrote an #rstats blog posts on the electoral lists of today's state elections in #Salzburg, Austria.
Scraping, wrangling, plotting...The intent was mainly to get a feeling for the lists, but it was a good exercise to use a few R packages I hadn't used recently - big shout-out to ggh4x which is a kind of turbo-charger for ggplot2.

https://werk.statt.codes/posts/2023-03-30-sbg-elections-candidate-age/

#ltw23 #SalzburgWahlen #Landtagswahl #ltwsalzburg