Writing on data, analytics, and building things — plus projects, a résumé, and a few lists.https://elliotpalmer.com/en-ushttps://elliotpalmer.com/blog/hello-again/https://elliotpalmer.com/blog/hello-again/The site has been rebuilt from scratch, and a handful of 2019 posts from the old Random Forestry blog have been migrated over.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://elliotpalmer.com/blog/tidytuesday-19-01-22/https://elliotpalmer.com/blog/tidytuesday-19-01-22/An exploration of the #tidytuesday US incarceration dataset in R, covering data munging, validation, and mapping median incarceration rates by state and county with ggplot2.Mon, 21 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://elliotpalmer.com/blog/mapping-in-ggplot2/https://elliotpalmer.com/blog/mapping-in-ggplot2/A short walkthrough of plotting US state-level data as a choropleth map in ggplot2, using the built-in USArrests dataset joined to map polygon data.Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://elliotpalmer.com/blog/setting-up-a-blogdown-site/https://elliotpalmer.com/blog/setting-up-a-blogdown-site/An outline of the steps for standing up a blogdown site: recommended reading, repo setup, package installation, and deploying to Netlify.Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://elliotpalmer.com/blog/updating-blogdown-site/https://elliotpalmer.com/blog/updating-blogdown-site/Quick notes on the workflow for adding a new post to a blogdown site: the YAML front matter, previewing with serve_site, and committing and pushing to GitHub.Sun, 20 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMT