Andrew Heiss

International NGOs, nonprofit management, authoritarianism, data visualization, and R

Archive

2018

  1. Create a cheap, disposable supercomputer with R, DigitalOcean, and future

  2. Show multiply imputed results in a side-by-side regression table with broom and huxtable

  3. Meld regression output from multiple imputations with tidyverse

  4. Fun with empirical and function-based derivatives in R

2017

  1. Working with R, Cairo graphics, custom fonts, and ggplot

  2. Create supply and demand economics curves with ggplot2

  3. Quickly play with Polity IV and OECD data (and see the danger of US democracy)

  4. Exploring Minard's 1812 plot with ggplot2

  5. Super basic practical guide to Docker and RStudio

2016

  1. Save base graphics as pseudo-objects in R

  2. Convert logistic regression standard errors to odds ratios with R

  3. Drone sightings in the US, visualized

  4. Fauxcasts: Use a podcast app to listen to audiobooks

  5. Use LibreOffice Base as a GUI for an SQLite database in OS X

2013

  1. Toggle the Bluetooth menu item with AppleScript

  2. True side-by-side page numbers in InDesign

2012

  1. Gutenberg ipsum

  2. Install R, RStudio, and R Commander in Windows and OS X

2011

  1. World-Ready Composer not Perfect

  2. Using Arabic in InDesign CS5 without InDesign ME

  3. Fake CloudApp with Dropbox and Quicksilver

  4. In Tahrir Square

  5. Mona Prince on #jan25 Egyptian Protests

2010

  1. iOS 4, Multitasking, and Battery Life

  2. Queen Rania at AUC

2009

  1. flashbakectl released

  2. iTunes plugin for Flashbake

  3. Using Google Voice and Gizmo Project Together

  4. Alexandria Train Crash

  5. Installing pdftk-php

  6. On narrowing and redefining research

  7. Import a Blogger Blog to InDesign with Perl

  8. pdftk-php Officially Released

  9. A Tale of Three Taxis

  10. Google Profile Business Cards

  11. Typing transliterated Arabic quickly

  12. Libya, obsolete paradigms, and Rip Van Winkle

  13. Do not succumb to economic stupidity

  14. New site launched

2007

  1. Populating a LiveCycle PDF with PHP and MySQL

  2. Using Arabic in InDesign without InDesign ME