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Scrape an image from DeepZoom with R and magick, recomposing a single image from multiple tiles

DeepZoom allows webmasters to display high resolution images in an online viewer. Among its users: The British Library The World Digital Library (WDL) Polona, the Polish Digital National Library BALaT, Belgian Art Links and Tools and many others DeepZoom mostly discourages downlading the original high resolution images to your local drive. This is how to […]

Radar charts with R

Radar charts, also called spider charts, serve to compare profiles of individuals. They are most useful if every profile is compared to an average profile. They are most pertinent when the order of the axis has an inherent sense, such as cardinal directions, the surroundings of an individual (the level of noise from left, right, […]

Workshop Poliphilo 2: seconde partie

Ceci est la seconde édition du workshop créé par l’auteur pour le laboratoire d’architecture ALICE (EPFL-ENAC) dans le cadre du projet de recherche et d’enseignement POLIPHILO. Le premier workshop (2019) demeure disponible en ligne. Si vous n’avez pas assisté à la séance du 1e avril, consultez la première partie du deuxième workshop. Dans cette seconde […]

COVID-19 Coronavirus cases in absolute numbers and per capita – evolution

Graphics of the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic. Updated regularly since March 31st. Source code for graphic production included. Excellent graphics of the evolution of the COVID-19 have been made by John Burn-Murdoch for the Financial Times or by Lisa Charlotte Rost for the Grand Continent (observatoire Coronavirus : tendances globales). Not only use they […]

Workshop Poliphilo 2 : première partie

Ceci est la seconde édition du workshop créé par l’auteur pour le laboratoire d’architecture ALICE (EPFL-ENAC) dans le cadre du projet de recherche et d’enseignement POLIPHILO. Le premier workshop demeure disponible en ligne. Première partie Dans cette première partie, nous allons étudier les diverses relations spatiales entre les lieux. Vos données Pour la suite de […]

Draw anything you want with R on the Cartesian grid

Most of the graphics documenation in R is dedicated to high level plotting packages that sometimes remind me of LaTeX: you spend less time producing graphical elements you need than getting rid of elements you have not asked for. Some of these packages are great, of course, and you should definitely use them for well […]

Repair a pandoc-generated LaTeX table with R

Pandoc is a great piece of software but it is not always kind to HTML tables when converting to LaTeX. Especially tables containing <tr> elements with rowspan or <td> elements with colspan attributes end up as sequences of lines of text, not embedded in a table environment like longtableand devoid of both line endings (\\) […]

Text Mining: Detect Strings: Very Fast Word Lookup in a Large Dictionary in R with data.table and matrixStats

Looking up words in dictionaries is the alpha and omega of text mining. I am, for instance interested to know whether a given word from a large dictionary (>100k words) occurs in a sentence or not, for a list of over 1M sentences. The best take at this task is using the Julia language, but […]

Premiers pas avec R et RStudio

Cet exercice a pour préalable d’avoir installé R et RStudio. Se familiariser avec l’interface Ouvrez RStudio. Vous devriez voir l’interface comme à l’image ci-dessous, pour l’heure sans la partie A. La partie C est en principe vide: Les fonctions de ces différentes parties sont les suivantes: Exécutez des lignes de codes dans la console (B) […]