Posts – Kyle Belanger

Learning Julia by WebScraping Amtrak Data

Julia

dataViz

Recently two things happened quite close together that started me on the journey to this post.

Does a US Born Players Birthdate affect their shot at the NHL

tidytuesday

R

dataViz

Inspired by TidyTuesday Week 2 - 2024 dataset about Candian Players, lets look at the same anaylyis for American Born Players

Reflex Testing using Machine Learning in the Clinical Laboratory

This post contains the abstract of my Capstone for the Doctorate of Health Science program at Campbell University.

To view the full paper please go to the following link

TidyTuesday 2021 Week 6: HBCU Enrollment

TidyTuesday 2021 Week 6: HBCU Enrollment. Posts looks at tidying the data ,as well as making some graphs about the data.

TidyTuesday

Recently I was struggling to find a data project to work on, I felt a bit stuck with some of my current projects, so I begun to scour the internet to find something to work…

Converting From Blogdown to Distill

A meta post on transferring from a blogdown to distill blog site

Distill

I have since converted this blog to a quarto blog, but am leaving this post up in case anyone finds it useful

Diabetes in Rural North Carolina : Data Collection and Cleaning

This is the second post in the series exploring Diabetes in rural North Carolina. This post will explore the data used for this project, from collection, cleaning, and analysis ready data.

This is the second post in the series exploring Diabetes in rural North Carolina. This post will explore the data used for this project, from collection, cleaning, and…

Diabetes in Rural North Carolina : Exploring Prevalence Trends

This post introduces the exploration of the Diabetes epidemic in North Carolina

2022-15-03: Since this was posted the CDC has updated how county level diabetes prevalance is calculated. The data presented here is using previous calcualtions and may no…

Importing Excel Data with Multiple Header Rows

A solution for importing Excel Data that contains two header rows.

Recently I tried to important some Microsoft Excel data into R, and ran into an issue were the data actually had two different header rows. The top row listed a group, and…

Basic Exploration of WHO Tuberculosis Data

Today I am going to dive into some real life data from the World Health Organization (WHO), exploring new and relapse cases of Tuberculosis. I clean up the data, and then make a few graphs to explore different variables.

Today I am going to dive into some real life data from the World Health Organization (WHO), exploring new and relapse cases of Tuberculosis. I clean up the data, and then…

Line Graphs and Interactivity

Tableau for Healthcare Chapter 10. Static and Interactive examples

Today’s post is all about line graphs using both ggplot for a static graph as well as a package called plotly for interactivity (more on this later). The example graph and…

Facets and a Lesson in Humility

A look at Tableau for Healthcare Chapter 8. Table Lens graph.

Todays post is a lesson in Facets, as well as humility. The task this week was to replicate the graph in Chapter 8 of Tableau for Healthcare in R. The graph in question is…

My Start to R

A short introduction to my blog, and R journey.

Today starts my attempt at sharing my R journey with the world! I have been learning R off and on now since late 2019, I have begun to take it much more serious as I work…