I often think about all the interesting — and time saving things — I’ve learned in R over the past year and a half. On Election Night, I wrote a script that used a headless Firefox browser and Selenium to pull Election Results in real-time and process it into an a Google Spreadsheet. I was pleasantly surprised how well it worked, and how with a few extra lines of code I could pipe it into ggplot and make all kinds of maps.

The New York City Gubernatorial maps I posted where much the same way. I took data from several NYC Election Night Results pages, aggregated it into a data frame, cleaned up and formatted the data, then piped it through to ggplot with some nice styling.

Every day, I try to learn and experiment in new directions, build my skills further. As I only become faster and more talented at using R the more I use it and learn the many shortcuts and libraries out there for writing better code, quicker.