demographerR’s notes

30 issues of Demographic Digest - the most frequent journals

This week, the 30-th issue of my Demographic Digest was published.
Tuesday, February 14, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

A perfect RStudio layout

Tiny things can separate life into “before” and “after”. Here is one. For almost a year I’ve been daily sending mental “thank you” to Ugo who showed me how to re-organize panes in RStudio. Since then I’ve been spreading this tiny improvement so many times that I thought the tiny advise deserved a separate…
Tuesday, May 22, 2018
Ilya Kashnitsky

Accelerating ggplot2: use a canvas to speed up plots creation

Basically, this post turned out to be just a wrong, premature, and unnecessary attempt of code optimization. If you still want to have look, make sure that later you read this…
Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Arranging subplots with ggplot2

For my recently published paper, I produced not-so-standard figures that show the two step decomposition used in the analysis. Have a look:
Monday, May 22, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Colorcoded map: regional population structures at a glance

Data visualization is…
Friday, June 30, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Compare population age structures of Europe NUTS-3 regions and the US counties using ternary color-coding

On 28 November 2018 I presented a poster at Dutch Demography Day in Utrecht. Here it is:
Monday, December 3, 2018
Ilya Kashnitsky

Data acquisition in R (1/4)

For each of the data acquisition options I provide a small visualization use case.
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Data acquisition in R (2/4)

R is an incredible tool for reproducible research. In the present series of blog posts I want to show how one can easily acquire data within an R session, documenting every…
Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Data acquisition in R (3/4)

For each of the data acquisition options I provide a small visualization use case.
Sunday, December 10, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Deep Catalan roots: playing with stringdist

This academic year I am participating in European Doctoral School of Demography. It is a unique one-year-long training for PhD students in demography. It keeps migrating across European research centers; this year Jim Vaupel’s research group in Odense…
Monday, June 4, 2018
Ilya Kashnitsky

Dotplot – the single most useful yet largely neglected dataviz type

I have to confess…
Friday, July 19, 2019
Ilya Kashnitsky

Easily re-using self-written functions: the power of gist + code snippet duo

Quite often data processing or analysis needs bring us to write own functions. Sometimes these self-defined functions are only meaningful and useful within a…
Tuesday, January 3, 2023
Ilya Kashnitsky

Evolution of ice hockey players’ height: IIHF world championships 2001-2016

The 2017 Ice Hockey World Championship has started. Thus I want to share a small research on the height of ice hockey players that I did almost a year ago and pub…
Saturday, May 27, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Gender gap in Swedish mortality

S…
Saturday, February 25, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Global convergence in male life expectancy at birth

In the modern history, the world has seen unprecedented decrease in human mortality – the result of the Demographic Transition. Initially, the improvements occurred only in…
Monday, July 17, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Hacking maps with ggplot2

This is a very short post on mapping with ggplot2.
Monday, April 24, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Hello R world post

Welcome to my blog!
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Male mortality in Russia and Japan

Russia is sadly notorious for its ridiculously high adult male mortality. According to Human Mortality Database data (2010), the probability for…
Monday, February 6, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

R, GIS, and fuzzyjoin to reconstruct demographic data for NUTS regions of Denmark

NUTS stands for the Nomenclature of Territorial Units For Statistics. The history of NUTS dates back to the beginning of 1970s, when European countries developed unified standards for systems of administrative geography. It was not until the…
Thursday, March 16, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Regional population structures at a glance

I am happy to announce that our paper is published today in The Lancet.
Saturday, July 21, 2018
Ilya Kashnitsky

See you in Barcelona this summer

Have you been feeling lately that you are missing out the coolest skill-set in academia?
Thursday, March 7, 2019
Ilya Kashnitsky

Sex ratios in all countries from Human Mortality Database

Sex ratios reflect the two basic regularities of…
Sunday, February 5, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot

One of the game-changing features of ggplot2 was the ease with which one can explore the dimensions of the data using small multiples.1 There is a small trick that I was to share today – put all the data in background of every panel. This can considerably improve comparability of the data across the…
Monday, January 23, 2023
Ilya Kashnitsky

Subplots in maps with ggplot2

Following the surprising success of my latest post, I decided to show yet another use case of the handy…
Thursday, May 25, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

The easiest way to radically improve map aesthetics

Since R community developed brilliant tools to deal with…
Sunday, January 1, 2023
Ilya Kashnitsky

Were there too many unlikely results at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar?

FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar saw many surprising results. In fact, too many – some would argue. From the unbelievable loss of Argentina to Saudi Arabia at the very beginning…
Sunday, December 25, 2022
Ilya Kashnitsky

What is life expectancy? And, even more important, what it isn’t

It really is a remarkable achievement and maybe a lot of luck that the world mundanely operates with such a complex indicator as life…
Friday, March 5, 2021
Ilya Kashnitsky

Who is old? Visualizing the concept of prospective ageing with animated population pyramids

This post is about illustrating the concept of…
Friday, March 31, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Young people neither in employment nor in education and training in Europe, 2000-2016

As an example of…
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
Ilya Kashnitsky

Zotero hacks: unlimited synced storage and its smooth use with rmarkdown

Here is a bit refreshed translation of my 2015 blog post, initially published on Russian blog platform habr.com. The post shows how to organize a personal academic library of unlimited size for free. This is a funny case of a self written manual which I came back to multiple times…
Thursday, March 14, 2019
Ilya Kashnitsky

demographeR’s notes

Show all data in the background of your faceted ggplot

sjrdata: all SCImago Journal & Country Rank data, ready for R

SCImago Journal & Country Rank provides valuable estimates of academic journals’ prestige. The data is freely available at the project website and is distributed for deeper analysis in forms of .csv and .xlsx files. I downloaded all the files and pooled…
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Ilya Kashnitsky
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