kieran healy 

Nerdery

A blog archive listing posts about technology, programming tools, data analysis, and software workflows, often with a focus on R, Quarto, and Emacs.

Using Quarto to Write a Book

Author details using Quarto to write a technical book on data visualization with R and ggplot, focusing on its advantages and workflow.

Data Visualization, Second Edition

Announcement of the second edition of a data visualization book, updated for modern R and ggplot, with discussion on LLMs in coding.

Blogs

A blog covering data visualization, spatial analysis in R, election mapping, and social science data, with a focus on technical methods and tools.

R

A blog archive listing posts about data visualization, statistical analysis, and data science using the R programming language.

Trustworthy Data Visualization

A keynote on trustworthy data visualization, exploring trust in an era of fake results, AI confabulation, and data infrastructure decay.

Visualization

A blog archive listing numerous data visualization projects, tutorials, and analyses, primarily focused on demographic, social, and public data.

Mamdani vs Sliwa and Cuomo

A technical analysis of NYC mayoral election results using R, spatial data, and GIS techniques to create maps visualizing precinct-level voting patterns.

Manhattan Plot of Manhattan

A data visualization blog post explaining the creation of a 'Manhattan plot' chart showing building heights in Manhattan over time, with technical details on design choices.

gssrdoc Updates

The author discusses updates to gssrdoc, an R package that provides integrated help documentation for the General Social Survey (GSS) dataset.

Halloween in the Round

Analyzing pedestrian fatality data using polar coordinate visualizations to reveal cyclical patterns in daily accident counts.