Data blog – FilipR

Comparing AI Models for Visualising Data

MOA-Benchmarking

Analysis

Data-visualisation

In this article I look at how well current AI models can visualise simple data. To make it interesting I am using real data on the most common first names of MOA Benchmarking users. The top five…

A Simple Way to Improve the Scoring of Aged Care Quality of Life and Care Experience

MOA-Benchmarking

Analysis

Data-visualisation

Aged care services across Australia are required to measure how satisfied their residents are with their care and quality of life. However, there’s a problem with how these satisfaction scores are…

Inside the PhD Student Network: Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University

R

Data-visualisation

PhD

In this article, I explore an idea suggested by Floyd Everest, which involves analysing the connections between PhD students through shared supervisors using a graph structure. By treating both…

Improve Quarto Documents by Including a Toggle for Code Folds

Quarto

Website

Observable

I often find that I want to include the code required to produce output in quarto documents. However, sometimes the code can make the quarto document messier to read through, especially for people…

Consider Image-Based Waffle Charts for Your Next Data Story

R

Data-visualisation

In this article I share how to create an image based waffle chart. With some creativity I believe these types of waffle charts can be imactful, while retaining the simplicity of waffle charts.…

Better Inputs for Storytelling With Data

Data-visualisation

Observable

Quarto

In this article I share stylised versions of the select and check box inputs that can be used for more elegant storytelling with data. Sometimes I would like to make inputs feel like they are part…

Show Geoms in a Graph’s Legend Using `ggplot2`

R

Data-visualisation

To colour or style data in ggplot you can define an aesthetics mapping (aes) or add the styles as an argument to the geom layer. For example, geom_point(aes(colour=var1)) or geom_point(colour='red').…

Visualising Aged Care Star Ratings up to Q4 FY23-24

MOA-Benchmarking

Data-visualisation

The latest Australian aged care star ratings have continued the upward trend. Below I show two animated histograms highlighting how star ratings have changed over time until Q4 FY23-24. The metric…

Trends in Aged Care Star Ratings Visualised (Q4 FY23-24 update)

Data-visualisation

MOA-Benchmarking

In this article I share interactive graphs that allow readers to explore trends in Australian aged care star ratings for various groups of homes.

Floating Profile Picture for Your Quarto Website About Page

Website

In this post I share how to make your profile picture “float” in your quarto website about page. To achieve the desired effect I use the trestles theme which for large screens displays as a two…

A Ridgeline Plot of Aged Care Star Ratings

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

Data-visualisation

In this article, I share a ridgeline plot showing the evolution in the distribution of Australian aged care star ratings since they were introduced. I specifically use the overall star rating prior…

Synthetic Control Dataset: The Basque Country

PhD

SCM

R

Data-visualisation

The seminal paper in the synthetic control literature, Abadie and Gardeazabal (2003), explored the impact of terrorism on the Basque Country. In this article I reproduce some of the key figures and…

Exploring Coffee Flavour Notes in The Great American Taste Test

R

Table

Analysis

TidyTuesday

James Hoffman, a coffee expert and YouTuber ran a blind coffee taste test in October of 2023 that involved participants receiving coffee taste kits. See James Hoffman’s live stream or the analysis to…

A Year of Aged Care Star Ratings Visualised

Data-visualisation

MOA-Benchmarking

In this article, I visualise the most recent year of Australian residential aged care star ratings. Using a Sankey chart, I show the flow of star ratings between quarters. The width of each path…

Show Documentation for Your R Function in Quarto on Click

R

In this article I share an approach to displaying documentation for user written functions in a quarto document using Tippy.js popups. The reason I started looking into this is that when I share…

Making a Custom Blog Widget Using GitHub Actions

Recently I wanted to include a widget on the about page of this website showing my current personal best typing speeds. However, my preferred website, Monkeytype, doesn’t appear to have a widget for…

An Interactive Aged Care Star Rating Frequency Chart

Data-visualisation

MOA-Benchmarking

Some time ago I designed a frequency chart for displaying how common various combinations of aged care star ratings are. However, while broad patterns were easy to make out from the static graph…

My Beamer Revealjs Theme

R

Using revealjs and quarto together is a powerful combination especially as there are many R packages for creating interactive html based data visualisations and showing output under code chunks can…

A Knitr Based Approach to R Puzzles

R

The R programming language is full of interesting quirks and functions that do not come up regularly in the typical analyst’s workflow. However, knowing about the less common functions and inner…

The December Effect for Compliments in Aged Care

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

Gathering feedback from aged care consumers, representatives, visitors, and staff is key to improving the quality of care offered by aged care services. While constructive criticism is important it…

Potential Underreporting of Pressure Injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

R

In this analysis I consider potential underreporting of pressure injuries in the National Aged Care Mandatory Quality Indicator Program by modelling the reporting of zero pressure injuries.

Aged Care Star Ratings for Q3 FY22-23

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

In this article I aim to provide some visualisations and analysis of the star rating extract for Q3 FY22-23, released by the Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care (2023). I show…

Analysis of Rest Homes in New Zealand

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

In this analysis I summarise the full list of certified rest home providers in New Zealand, a publicly available dataset, released by the Ministry of Health-Manatū Hauora (2023).

Lessons From Text Mining Aged Care Consumer Feedback

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

Both positive and negative feedback contribute to the continuous improvement of aged care services. Positive feedback recognises and reinforces what is working well, while negative feedback…

Pets in Aged Care

Analysis

MOA-Benchmarking

In this analysis I look at the impact of allowing pets in aged care. Some research has been done that suggests keeping pets in residential aged care can be therapeutic for people living with dementia …