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Nice analysis, but...

...here's something I find astonishing.

The word "R" doesn't appear anywhere in this article.

He doesn't mention anywhere that he's using "R", and within "R" he's using the "tidyverse".

So much good work to write a tutorial, but a rank beginner will have a hard time figuring out how to replicate it.



I will consider adding a section mentioning the tools! (I'm the author of this page.)


I really like the design/typography of the article. Pleasant and elegant.


It's a recreation of the style used by Edward Tufte, who wrote an influential book on data visualization.


The code blocks blending in with the rest of the post and the code itself is very aesthetically pleasing. I thought it was julia at first glance.


I'd prefer if the `tufte` theme would render the "|>" pipes as "▷" but I wasn't prepared to do that level of tinkering.


Yeah I had no idea what he was using til I read your comment. I thought it was Python but it didn't look enough like Python…


I was wondering if it was R or Datalog. Thank you!

I did something similar to this with SQLite once. That was fun.


It says "This page was generated from an R markdown file." under Tools at the top.


This seems to have been added in response to parent's comment.




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